Bowl
- Museum number:
- 5-16983
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050016983
- Accession number:
- Acc.4772
- Description:
- shallow ceramic bowl with wide base ring, flared sides and in-turned, decorated rim. 3 "M" shaped bosses on 2 sides are pierced with a round hole at center. rim decoration consists of 2 raised bands which have been "pleated". base is decorated with a rectangular pattern similar to rim. bowl is black; finish of surface and horizontal lines lightly inscribed on interior surface.
- Donor:
- Dorothy Shack
- Collection place:
- Ethiopia
- Culture or time period:
- Fuge and Gurage
- Collector:
- Dorothy Shack and William A. Shack
- Materials:
- Ceramic (material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Bowls (vessels)
- Function:
- 1.5 Household
- Accession date:
- May 14, 2009
- Context of use:
- household
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- height 9.5 centimeters and diameter 32 centimeters
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