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Hearst Museum object titled Pot, accession number 5-17037, described as Ceramic vessel used for preparing food. Dark grey clay, mikacious clay fired to black. At the top of the shoulder where it meets the neck of the vessel, pot is decorated with a double band of stippling below which there is a design of triangles, also of double, stippled bands. Base of pot is round with no base ring. 1949.
Hearst Museum object titled Pot, accession number 5-15637, described as Cooking pot, ceramic, earthenware; pinched neck; incised design on band near rim; fire-blackened; Rim diameter 12.8 centimeters X height 7.9 centimeters.
Hearst Museum object titled Pot, accession number 5-15608, described as Ewer, ceramic, earthenware. Round body, long neck. Incised bands and geometric design near rim. Globular body. Rim chipped. Black. Filled with red clay powder. Height circa 23.2 cm, Rim diameter 10.2 cm. From Central Africa, Zaire, Shaba Province, near Dilolo Gare, Chokwe.
Hearst Museum object titled Pot, accession number 5-15609, described as Ewer, ceramic, earthenware, long-necked. Dark Brown. Globular body, incised geometric design on neck. Rim chipped. Height circa 26.5 cm, Rim diameter 10.3 cm. From Central Africa, Zaire, Shaba Province, near Dilolo Gare, Chokwe.
Hearst Museum object titled Pot, accession number 5-17008, described as Coil made (?) pottery vessel, with flared neck and rim and round base. Decorated with 2 bordered bands where neck meets shoulder, one of which is stippled. Adjoining the neck bands is a double band of connected chevrons - 2 adjoining rows bordered, and stippled. 1949.
Hearst Museum object titled Pot, accession number 5-1552, described as Divining pot, patched black ware. 3.5 inches diameter, 2 inches height. Location: Suku. The open concave side is rubbed on the ground, while names of “fetishes” or people are called out. When the pot sticks at a name, the letter is responsible for the disease. Used mainly by non-professional diviners. This kind of divination is practiced in unimportant matters, essentially by amateurs. The results of divination are viewed rather as leads than as “truth” and are taken with some skepticism. If a matter is important, then the case is taken to a professional diviner, the best of whom use no divining apparatus but “see things in dreams.” Some professional diviners, however, whose reputation is not solidly established will confirm, for the benefit of their clients, what they dreamt by using a divining pot, or some other such apparatus (e.g. sliding a turtle shell along a string, calling out causes of diseases, and stopping at the name which the shell stops sliding).
Hearst Museum object titled Teapot, accession number 5-15639a-c, no description available.

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