Container for Serving Beer (Ukhamba)

1990s-early 2000s

Mncane Nzuza, Zulu (born 1950)
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Status: On View, Gallery 289
Department: Arts of Africa

Artist: Mncane Nzuza
Title: Container for Serving Beer (Ukhamba)
Place: South Africa (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1990–2020
Medium: Terracotta
Dimensions: 36.2 × 54.7 × 57.2 cm (14 1/4 × 21 1/2 × 22 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: African Decorative Arts Fund
Reference Number: 2020.326

Art Institute of Chicago, Critical Fabulation, Oct. 10, 2025-Jan. 4, 2026, no cat.

Commissioned from Mncane Znuza, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa (born 1950), by unnamed private collector, around 1990s/2000s [this and the following information from personal correspondence from Douglas Dawson dated Jan. 24, 2020; Douglas Dawson, from 2018; sold to the Art Institute, 2020.

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