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Pottery cooking vessel for fish. Mpika
Pottery cooking vessel for fish. Mpika
Object Number 49-14-50/8303
Display Title Pottery cooking vessel for fish. Mpika
Descriptions
Indigenous Term Mpika
Inventory Description Ceramic bowl, plain, fireclouded, heavily broken and mended.
Classification
  • Bowl
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Yao
  • Lambia
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Nyasaland
Additional Geographic Terms Mtimbuka; Fort Johnston, near
Materials Ceramic
Dimensions Overall: 36 x 21 x 1.3 cm (14 3/16 x 8 1/4 x 1/2 in.)
Quantity 9
Label on object 49-14-50/8303

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