Unidentified
Palm-Wine Pot (kume ndu)
n.d.
Category
Culture
Bamessi
Place Made
Cameroon: Grassfields Region: Ndop Plain
Materials
Terracotta
Measurements
19 x 19 x 19 in (48.26 x 48.26 x 48.26 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Kent and Charles Davis in honor of the marriage of their daughter Inglish to Jay Matthews DeVoss, New Orleans
Location
Sadie and Oliver Billion Gallery, African Art; Free Standing 4
Accession #
2000.39
Description
Round terra cotta vessel with decorative motifs adorning top half. The lower half of the vessel is rouletted. The upper rim loops around and has oval and smaller round openings. Small holes are poked through the surface of the neck, produced by a thin reed.