Near the iconography of Mwana Hiti (like "dolls", we have again the trunk of the figure reduced to a simple cylinder, with women's breasts just mentioned, hair topped by a two ridges) is the cap of this container Kwere, neighbors of the aforementioned Zaramo on the coast of Tanzania that gave the Indian Ocean. Such objects, once quite common in Africa but now - if of good quality - rather rare, was used by "medicine men" of the villages to contain substances "magic", mostly powdered herbs, and are constructed emptied and dried with a pumpkin with a carved wooden cap. This
we present, a total of 20 cm high. and has a great patina, comes expert German Klaus - Jochen Krüger, who has in turn bought by an antiques dealer in Nairobi (Kenya).
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