Pot

Museum number:
5-17037
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
EC-96 (temporary number)
Accession number:
Acc.4787
Description:
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.
Donor:
Elizabeth Colson
Collection place:
Chona Village, Zambia
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa, Zambia, Plateau Tonga, Chona Village.
Culture or time period:
Tonga people of Zambia and Zimbabwe
Collector:
Elizabeth Colson
Collection date:
1949
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Pots (containers)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
September 9, 2011
Context of use:
For cooking.
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
diameter 18 centimeters and height 15 centimeters
Images:
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.

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