Vessel
AF2296
From: Kenya | British East Africa | Ukamba
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | AF2296 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Akamba |
| Provenience | Kenya | British East Africa | Ukamba |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Gourd | Leather | Cowrie Shell |
| Description | Gourd vessel. With strap decorated with cowries and stopper made from top of another gourd. Contained "nthoko," a kind of bean stopper used as a cup. |
| Height | 32 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 19.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Lawson S. Propst and William Wight, 1916 |
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