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Object Number 30-66-50/H1279
Display Title Milk pails
Descriptions
Inventory Description Carved wooden container, cylindrical, 3 legs, with burned/incised design, fiber
Classification
  • Jar
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Wanyamwezi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Tanzania
Materials Wood, Fiber
Dimensions Overall: 22.3 x 17.2 x 18 cm (8 3/4 x 6 3/4 x 7 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 30-66-50/H1279

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Milk pails
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Container
Tanzania
Milk pails
30-66-50/H1279.6 Milk pails
Container
Tanzania
Milk pails
30-66-50/H1279.5 Milk pails
Container
Tanzania
Milk pails
30-66-50/H1279.4 Milk pails
Container
Tanzania
Milk pails
30-66-50/H1279.3 Milk pails
Container
Tanzania
Milk pails
30-66-50/H1279.1 Milk pails
Container
Tanzania
Bark boxes (pails) for storing goods
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Box
Spanish Guinea
Bark boxes (pails) for storing goods
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Box
Spanish Guinea
Image Not Available for Fragments of pails "bail eyes"
11-50-40/83380 Fragments of pails "bail eyes"
Metal
Italy
Fragments of pails bail eyes
11-50-40/83420 Fragments of pails bail eyes
Vessels
Raw Material
Italy
Ebony effigy used on covers of bark pails in which ancestral skulls are placed
2004.24.24200A Ebony effigy used on covers of bark pails in which ancestral skulls are placed
Cameroon
Ebony effigy used on covers of bark pails in which ancestral skulls are placed
2004.24.24200C Ebony effigy used on covers of bark pails in which ancestral skulls are placed
Cameroon