Medicine pot, made from pottery, brown in colour with patches of black. [ASh [OPS move] 10/5/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Medicine pot, made from pottery, brown in colour with patches of black. [ASh [OPS move] 10/5/2017]
Long description: Medicine pot. Made from pottery with a rounded base and an instep below the mouth of the vessel. There is no visibly impressed pattern on the exterior of the vessel. The pot is brown with patches of black on the sides, possibly scorch marks. [ASh [OPS move] 10/5/2017]
Geographical reference: Uganda
Africa > Eastern Africa > Uganda; Western Region [Hoima, Kibale, Masindi districts] / Bunyoro-Kitara
Cultural groups: Nyoro
Person: Field collector John Roscoe; Field collector Mackie Ethnological Expedition; PRM source John Roscoe
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1920
Date collected: circa 1919
Acquisition information: Donated: 1921
Materials and processes: Material Pottery, Process Handbuilt
Dimensions: Height: max 98 mm, Diameter: max 105 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1921.9.190
Research and responses: 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

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