Bottle and stopper

Museum number:
5-256a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050256a@2cb
Accession number:
Acc.334
Description:
Bottle, leather, with pouring spout and filling spout plugged with ornamented wooden stopper (B) Slightly flared foot. Tooled leather strap for carrying loop between spouts.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Ethiopia
Verbatim coll. place:
Bega Bedpioms attrib., between the Nile and Red Sea
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Materials:
Leather, Metal, and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bottles
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1908
Context of use:
Probably a water cooler by evaporation through the slightly porous leather. Such bottles are never large. Others very similar to this are known from the Galla and Amhara in Ethiopia and the Ait Atta Berbers in Morocco.
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
width 22 centimeters and height 45.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Bottle and stopper, accession number 5-256a,b, described as Bottle, leather, with pouring spout and filling spout plugged with ornamented wooden stopper (B) Slightly flared foot. Tooled leather strap for carrying loop between spouts.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bottle and stopper, accession number 5-256a,b, described as Bottle, leather, with pouring spout and filling spout plugged with ornamented wooden stopper (B) Slightly flared foot. Tooled leather strap for carrying loop between spouts.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bottle and stopper, accession number 5-256a,b, described as Bottle, leather, with pouring spout and filling spout plugged with ornamented wooden stopper (B) Slightly flared foot. Tooled leather strap for carrying loop between spouts.

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