Pot

Museum number:
5-14581
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4023
Description:
Pot, cooking, "chungu." Bowl-shaped, red clay, reconstructed. Continuous curvilinear ridge encircling the center. Diameter 27 centimeters, height 11 centimeters. Used as a cooking pot when cooking curry or meat. Made by women (wojomvu) and used by women. Obtained by trade from Wajomvu, Jomvu. Cost USD $2.14 [at collection date 1984].
Donor:
Linda Donley and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Mombasa, Kenya
Verbatim coll. place:
Kenya; Mwembetayari; Mombasa; Wajomvu
Culture or time period:
Swahili
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Pots (containers)
Function:
1.5 Household
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Pot, accession number 5-14581, described as Pot, cooking, "chungu." Bowl-shaped, red clay, reconstructed. Continuous curvilinear ridge encircling the center. Diameter 27 centimeters, height 11 centimeters. Used as a cooking pot when cooking curry or meat. Made by women (wojomvu) and used by women. Obtained by trade from Wajomvu, Jomvu. Cost USD $2.14 [at collection date 1984].
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pot, accession number 5-14581, described as Pot, cooking, "chungu." Bowl-shaped, red clay, reconstructed. Continuous curvilinear ridge encircling the center. Diameter 27 centimeters, height 11 centimeters. Used as a cooking pot when cooking curry or meat. Made by women (wojomvu) and used by women. Obtained by trade from Wajomvu, Jomvu. Cost USD $2.14 [at collection date 1984].

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