Kwere clay gourd with wooden stopper - Tanzania
Aprox. 8" tall
wood, clay, beads, pigment
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Gourds similar to this were mainly used as containers for medicines, ointments, pigments, sacred oils and symbolic
substances. Gourds with anthropomorphic stoppers/dippers were sometimes placed on top of a small stool to
serve as an ancestor figure. Some of these utilized clay for the base instead of an actual gourd.
Despite its appearance, I believe this object was most likely made specifically for the collecting market.
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