bowl (containers)

Small circular wooden bowl with a projection at one end suggesting the head and neck of a bird, and a projection at the other end suggesting a bird's tail. Below the bird's neck is an aperture in a smaller projection. There is a painted row of reddish dots around the rim of the bowl, initials in brown (T.D.S.?) on one side and the date 1795 on the other, a trefoil motif above the tail and feather shapes on the neck. Old repair with a metral plate below the date. Remains of a label read: '..er fra ....83'.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
nn3233
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 114 mm x 155 mm x 104 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
wood; iron; pigment
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
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