Carved wooden tobacco mortar in the form of a squatting human figure
- Made:
- 1890-1920 in Democratic Republic of Congo
Carved wooden tobacco mortar in the form of a squatting human figure with drum shaped bowl on head, plain mortar attached, Bena Lulua tribe(?) Southern Congo, 1890-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A10443
- Materials:
- wood and stopper, gourd
- type:
- mortars pestles
- credit:
- Vicentius