Purse
AF729
From: Zaire | Kasai District | Belgian Congo
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | AF729 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Bambala |
| Provenience | Zaire | Kasai District | Belgian Congo |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Wood | Leather | Plant Fiber |
| Technique | Carved |
| Description | Carved wooden purse with fitted lid. Lid is attached with a strip of leather(leather is knotted on both ends). Rounded base and body, top of lid forms a point. Carvings are of vertical lines in half circle shapes, three on both back and front. Incised vertical lives encircle rim of object. The main body of purse ahs a raised spout, inwhich the lid fits over. A piece of material in stuffed in spout. |
| Height | 6 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 6 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from J. F. G. Umlauff, 1912 |
| Other Number | 6607-11, 821 - Other Number |
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