Pot lid; disk of dark brown wood with central carved handle in full relief which is crescent-shaped at top; 5 carved symbols inside perimeter are a double gong, bellows, sword, awl-like object and seed pod of the Schrebera golungensis tree (used on divining chain).
Donor:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Verbatim coll. place:
Lower Western Congo, Ba Woyo (a Yombe sub-group); Purchased from Baba Kaba in Berkeley
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
1970
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
December 27, 1977
Context of use:
The Woyo or Bawoyo, a Yombe subgroup, made wooden pot lids whose relief carvings represented proverbs by means of which a wife could remind her husband of his marital shortcomings...