Wooden storage container for milk
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Nov 2000
label: Collection Date
content: 1989 to 1990
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Labelle Prussin
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Labelle Prussin
notes: label: Notes
content: Short bottle-shaped wooden container. Leather stretched over bottom third. Leather cap (does not come off). Short strip of leather for handle, broken.
label: Notes
content: Donor's notes describe this as a "carved wooden storage container (bangkhech)" She thinks it was used for meat, but it still has a definite milk odor. See Prussin, African Nomadic Architecture, p 159.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Jan 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kenya, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Gabra (?)
label: Culture
content: Rendille (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 420734
label: USNM Number
content: E431640-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Milk Container
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 9 cm
label: Width
content: 8.5 cm
label: Height
content: 13.5 cm