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Wooden bowl

Main catalogue: "KUPSA wooden bowl with foot and handle, outside and rim ornamented (frog pattern). Foot with 2 triangular side holes and 2 handles between them." Index card "There is a notched pattern on the rim of the cow foot, the bowl wall is decorated with dark, raised carved geometric patterns on a light background; the rim of the bowl is drawn very far inwards. There are traces of white paint on the outside of the bowl."

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Bamun (Bamum, Mamum, Bamoun, Mamoun, Mamoum)
Object type
Wooden bowl
Dimensions
Height: 39,5 cm
Depth: 46 cm
Width: 46 cm
Material/Technique
Wood
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 25382

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Cameroon
    who
    Bamun (Bamum, Mamum, Bamoun, Mamoun, Mamoum)
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Africa

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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