Carved Wooden Container and Lid
name: label: Collector
content: M. Arnoldi
label: Discipline
content: Anthropology
label: Region
content: African Region
notes: label: Description
content: This object is part of the Education and Outreach collection, some of which are in the Q?rius science education center and available to see.
label: Geologic Age
content: late 20th century
label: Notes
content: Carved wooden vessel and lid decorated with incised geometric designs and animal motifs. The vessel was made in Rwanda and the motifs represent scenes of cattle herding in Tutsi culture. The geometric designs consist of repeating patterns of triangles and straight lines. There are four panels featuring two animal motifs. The first motif features two long billed cattle birds facing one another with a geometric design panel between them. The other features a cattle bird sitting on the back of a long horned cow with a prominent hump. The lid is carved with concentric circles of designs similar to those on the vessel body. There is a large crack running down the middle of the body of the vessel between two panels. The interior of the vessel is smooth but unfinished and undecorated.
label: Number of objects in this record
content: 2
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Nov 2023
place: label: Collecting Locality
content: Africa, Rwanda
topic: label: Topic
content: Education & Outreach
culture: label: Culture
content: Tutsi
setName: label: See more items in
content: Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center
identifier: label: USNM Number
content: EO400642
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Education and Outreach collections
physicalDescription: label: Material
content: Wood, Paint