About this artwork
Among the Zulu, pottery is a specialized art form that is practiced by skilled women who make wares for family use and for sale. While many of the same forms of pottery—including the round-bodied and lipless beer-serving vessel—can be found across Zululand, there are distinctive regional styles of decoration. Potters in the Hlabisa region use a comb to inscribe thin, closely spaced lines into the wet clay. On this pot these form a textured panel of delicate ridges around the body that is intersected by a smooth zigzag band at the shoulders.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Arts of Africa
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Culture
- Northern Nguni
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Title
- Vessel for Serving Beer (Ukhamba)
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Place
- South Africa (Object made in)
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Date
- 1925–1975
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Medium
- Blackened terracotta
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Dimensions
- 24.1 × 29.2 cm (9 1/2 × 11 1/2 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Keith Achepohl
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Reference Number
- 2005.261
Extended information about this artwork
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