Object Details
- Label Text
- These double spouted palm-wine containers were made by female Degha potters. The vessels are fired using an open pit technique. The dark patina is creaded by smoking the pot in smoldering cow dung and leaves leaving behind a tar residue. Most of Degha pottery is sold to people from neighboring villages once of pots are cool enough to handle.
- Description
- Football-shaped vessel with disk-shaped projections and bands of incised lines on each end, with pattern of incised horizontal and diagonal lines at the center of each side, two cylindrical angled spouts with heavy round rims with a small loop handle between them and a tapered, concave pedestal base.
- Provenance
- Roy and Brigitta Mitchell, Washington,D.C.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of African Art
- Maker
- Degha artist
- Date
- Mid-20th century
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Roy and Brigitta Mitchell Collection
- Medium
- Ceramic
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 25.4 x 24 x 19.6 cm (10 x 9 7/16 x 7 11/16 in.)
- Type
- Ceramics
