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African Wooden Vessels
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Himba Wooden Milk Pail Namibia
This milk pail is exceptional. The collector was able to purchase it as the bottom had cracked. Had that not occurred, this way over the top prestigious vessel would never have been sold the to the buyer
Patterned dotted decorations adorn either side, most likely representing shade trees. (Baobab)
We salute the technical ability of the leather worker, for the concept of entering leather into itself, as a means to keep it from departing and supporting this rare object.
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Ken Karner african beer pots wooden meat dish vintage antique artefact artifacts artifact artefacts
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Himba Double Fat Containers Namibia
Fat containers store a combination of ochre and milk fat, used to adorn the body and objects, which in this case, includes the object itself. This is a rare example of a double, decorated with very old, worn iron beads. Usually these items aree made from wood and leather, but in this case the body of the object is old PVC.
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Milk Pail - Mwila - Angola
This milk pail was used to store sour milk. Such examples have become all but extinct in the field.
A fine, deep, encrusted, heavy patina of use, emits the feeling of an inner soul.
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Wooden Milk Containers
Mbanderu - Botswana
Mbanderu / Herero Wooden Milk Vessel "Ehoro" Example D
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Swazi Meat Platter - 20th Century
"Umcwembe"
This stunning symmetrical wooden meat tray is almost perfectly round.
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This is a far larger and very powerful lug example with a simplistic appealing form.
The stunning vessel is also almost perfectly round.
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Tobacco Mortar
Mbunda / Western Zambia
Collected in Western Zambia. Origen / Eastern Angola
Reise nach Angola - Page 78 - 1913-1914
The mortar sits on a "Litanda" stool, much like these Alfred Schachtzabel pipe examples do.
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Zulu Milk Pails "Itunga"
Used to fetch and carry milk.
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Swazi Meat Platter - 20th Century
"Umcwembe"
A powerful example which leaves you felling a similarly to Fijian kava bowls.
Authentically Used
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Swazi Meat Tray
"Umcwembe"
An ET look-a-like?
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This platter displays well from both front and back.
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Zulu Meat Platter - 20th Century
"Umcwembe"
A fine example with detailed geometric pokerwork decoration.
Authentically Used
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Zulu / Tsonga - Meat Platter
"Umcwembe"
A fine, small example rediscovered in England.
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Swazi Double Meat Platter
"Umcwembe"
Old deep Patina
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Swazi Multiple Bowl Meat Platter
"Umcwembe"
Another fantastic example.
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Milk Pail
Ganda - Uganda
Authentic tribal aluminum repair upon a highly collectable form.
The pail has porous wood, falsely leading some to assume they are made of rhino horn.
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Nyoro Meat Trays
Uganda
Nyoro chiefs and headmen used wooden bowls to serve meat.
Tribal Crafts of Uganda - Margaret Trowell - Plate 18 - 1953
Margaret Trowell's catalogued drawings E, F, G and I were attributed as Nyoro wooden vessels.
Nyoro bowls were supported by multiple legs with sharply flexed outside planes.
Meat tray legs closely resembled those of a chameleon, which mirrors ancient Nyoro belief that the first humans who came to earth looked like chameleons.
This Nyoro meat tray was collected at the end of the 19th century and was rediscovered in Germany.
Franz Stuhlmann - Plate V
Franz Stuhlmann's displays a 19th century example he collected in Uganda prior to 1894.
A second rare example.
The Nyoro stained their meat trays red-brown by rubbing them with a certain root.
Pokerwork was added for decoration.
Razel - Volkerkunde - 1895 -Vol 2 - Page 239
Prof. Dr. Friedrich Razel illustrated a Nyoro meat bowl in his 1895 work entitled Volkerkunde.
This example is the only one we know of which had two separated compartments.
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