Leather bottomed wooden container. Wooden core is open at both ends and covered with camel-hide roughly half way up the vessel. Incised decoration around the tio of the wooden core and it also has a hide carrying strap. For the separate hide-lid see [1999.20.15 .2] [RM [OPS move] 20/9/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Leather bottomed wooden container. Wooden core is open at both ends and covered with camel-hide roughly half way up the vessel. Incised decoration around the tio of the wooden core and it also has a hide carrying strap. For the separate hide-lid see [1999.20.15 .2] [RM [OPS move] 20/9/2016]
Long description: Leather-bottomed wooden container with separate lid. The wooden core is open at both ends, the base being covered with camel-skin (actually two pieces stitched together) that continues roughly half-way up the sides. Hide carrying strap. Separate hide-lid. There is incised decoration (pyroengraving?) around the top of the wooden core. [JC 1 7 1999]
Geographical reference: Kenya
Africa > Eastern Africa > Kenya; Turkana Ngilukumong
Cultural groups: Turkana
Person: Field collector George Monbiot; Field collector Adrian Arbib; PRM source George Monbiot
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1993
Date collected: early 1993
Acquisition information: Donated: 1999
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Camel Hide Skin Camelid Animal, Process Carved, Process Stitched, Process Incised, Process Pyroengraved Pokerwork
Dimensions: Diameter: max 183 mm total, Height: max 188 mm total, Height: max 177 mm, Diameter: max 183 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1999.20.15.1

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