Wooden bowl with handle

Museum number:
5-16895
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Accession number:
Acc.4748
Description:
Carved wood bowl, incised inside and outside. Handle carved with hole with cloth loop. Bowl cracked and repaired with leather thongs and a metal patch nailed over crack on inside of bowl.
Donor:
Robert I. Orlins
Collection place:
Sudan
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa, Egypt, Nubia, Tomas village.
Collector:
Robert I. Orlins
Collection date:
1964-1965
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowls (vessels) and Carvings (visual works)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
February 8, 2005
Context of use:
Domestic
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
diameter 17.5 centimeters and depth 8.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Wooden bowl with handle, accession number 5-16895, described as Carved wood bowl, incised inside and outside. Handle carved with hole with cloth loop. Bowl cracked and repaired with leather thongs and a metal patch nailed over crack on inside of bowl.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Wooden bowl with handle, accession number 5-16895, described as Carved wood bowl, incised inside and outside. Handle carved with hole with cloth loop. Bowl cracked and repaired with leather thongs and a metal patch nailed over crack on inside of bowl.

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