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1921.1.11

Red pottery bowl in which to burn twigs to scent tanned skin clothes.


1921.1.11

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Collection type
Object
Description
Red pottery bowl in which to burn twigs to scent tanned skin clothes.
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1921
Date collected
June 1920
Acquisition information
Donated: 1921
Materials and processes
Material Pottery
Object numbers
Accession number: 1921.1.11
Research and responses

Lake KIVU, situated between Congo (Kinshasa) to the west and Rwanda to the east. [Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica] [MR 9/3/2000]

Search terms: Vessel, Pottery