Mug, metal; made from infant food formula can; top removed; used as cup or dipper or as communal drinking vessel for beer, fruit juice, or multi (medicine). Made by an unknown women (age 30) for her son Pebane. "PEBANE" hand etched on top vertically (Pebane District is also a district of Zambezia Province in Mozambique) "500g Food Formula for Infants The Logical Alternative to Mother's Milk" On top front "SMA" Icon on middle front "Manufactured by Wyeth Laboratories Isando, Transvaal, South Africa" on front bottom Other writing and information in both English and Afrikaans? (possibly) on two sides of the can
Donor:
Margot Winer and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Republic of South Africa
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; South Africa; Sotho; Masem Market
Culture or time period:
Sotho
Collector:
Margot Winer
Collection date:
10/1989 - 12/1989
Materials:
Metal
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Mugs (cups)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
January 1990
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
height 14.7 centimeters and depth 10 centimeters
Loans:
S1995-1996 #9: Museum of International Folk Art (October 1, 1995–February 11, 2000)