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Double bowl | |
These carved wooden bowls would hold foods to welcome visitors. They were made by Zulu people of South Africa. They are held together by a central handle. |
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Northampton Museum and Art Gallery | |
1800-1900 | |
South Africa | |
Wood | |
Traditional Zulu cuisine is served with wooden bowls and spoons, and in this particular example one bowl would hold meat - typically goat or oxen which were often ritually slaughtered - and the other would hold a wet relish - typically a meat gravy or vegetable stew into which small, hand-rolled balls of polenta-like stiff maize called puthu would be dipped. Researched as part of the Knowledge of the unseen project. |
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Not on display |