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Vessel

Object Number:32-10-4
Current Location: Collections Storage
Provenience: Botswana
Section:African
Materials:Gourd
Height: 21 cm
Credit Line:Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee, 1932

Description

Calabash inscribed with figures of animals (giraffes, etc.). Style of drawings is not Bushman, which one would expect at Ghanzi, rather that of Barotse, also visited by the expedition. For Bushman type of decoration, see 32-10-3, 32, 105; and cf., for Barotse style, similar honey-bear pots in Holub, Sieben Jahre in Sudafrika, II.

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