- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Pot for holding butter. [L.Ph 7/1/2005]
- Cultural groups
- Ankole
- Person
- Field collector John Roscoe
- Field collector Mackie Ethnological Expedition
- PRM source John Roscoe
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1920
- Date collected
- 1919
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 08/1920 Found unentered: 2005
- Materials and processes
- Material Pottery
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 150 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1920.101.93
- Research and responses
Related Documents File - 'List of objects connected with milk ritual etc BUNYORO, Uganda. Pres. by Rev. J. Roscoe.' Listed by local name, includes a list of pipes. Two letters from Roscoe to Balfour, one dated 14 April 1921 (listing a further eight objects he was to send), and the second letter is dated 26 April 1921. [MOB 15/11/2001]
- Associated publications
- Rev. John Roscoe The Soul of Central Africa, A General Account of The Mackie Ethnological Expedition, London 1922. Balfour Library Reference : Africa 8 Also: Roscoe The Northern Bantu, Cambridge 1915. Balfour Library Africa 8
Search terms: Food and Drink, Vessel, Pottery
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