A Butter Pot, umukondo

Tutsi

Great Lakes of Central Africa

Rwanda or Burundi

7 x 7 cm

Materials: Wood

Condition: Tiny chip to protruding knob

This hollowed out thin walled and smooth surfaced container is the typical form of a Tutsi butter pot. Butter was used to soften the skin by the Tutsi people.

Reference:

see The Victoria Nyanza; the land, the races and their customs, with specimens of some of the dialects, Kollman, Nesbitt, 1865, fig. 172.

INV: 4138

Price

€ 700