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Object type

butter pot

Materials

wood, leather

Legend

Butter container made from camel hide (preferably from the knee or neck), or from an ox hump. The forked wooden lid is inserted in the neck made of palm tree fibres.

Place of collecting

Ethiopia > Omo Valley

Culture

Nyangatom

Field collector

Xavier Van der Stappen

Acquisition related person

Xavier Van der Stappen, as seller

Date of acquisition

1995-05-19

Dimensions

34 cm x 22 cm

Inventory number

EO.1995.9.64




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