Object Details
- Inland Niger Delta Style
- Label Text
- African potters--primarily women--handbuild a variety of vessels that they embellish with beautiful colors, designs and motifs before firing them at low temperatures. Containers made for daily use hold water or serve as cooking utensils. They also make vessels to be used in special ceremonies or that become part of an assemblage of objects placed in a shrine.
- Description
- Red colored bowl with lightly incised parallel lines around the rim.
- Provenance
- Colonial estate collection, before 1920
- Credit Line
- Purchased with funds provided by the Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program
- 13th-15th century
- Object number
- 89-13-27
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Ceramics
- Medium
- Ceramic, slip
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 14.8 x 15.3 x 15.2 cm (5 13/16 x 6 x 6 in.)
- Geography
- Inland Niger Delta region, Mali
- See more items in
- National Museum of African Art Collection
- National Museum of African Art
- Topic
- male
- Record ID
- nmafa_89-13-27
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ys7fb779c9f-9629-4070-8072-6c7da4fcc18c
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