Accession No
1936.211 C
Description
Shallow bowl of copper alloy sheet metal, possibly of brass, with a wide, rounded, circular base and a flared rim. The rim is decorated with an embossed pattern of lozenges. Each lozenge has a conical shaped relief in the centre, and a border of finely indented lines.
Place
Africa; West Africa; Ghana; Gold Coast; Poposo-Nsota
Period
Source
Wild, Robert Powley (Captain) [collector and donor]
Department
Anth
Reference Numbers
1936.211 C
Cultural Affliation
Asante [Ashanti]
Material
Metal; Copper Alloy; ?Brass
Local Term
Measurements
222mm x 56mm x 232mm
Events
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1936.211 A-C:
[written in pencil in a different hand] 'C. Damaged. Outer diameter about 227 mm.'
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (References)
Wild, R. P., (1934). 'The inhabitants of the Gold Coast & Ashanti before the Akan invasion', The Gold Coast Teachers' Journal, Vol. 6.
Event Date 1934
Author: Lizzy Peneycad
Context (Related Documents)
For information about the pottery and some of Wild's other finds, see Wild, R. P. (1934). 'Stone Age pottery from the Gold Coast & Ashanti'. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 64, pp. 203-215.
Event Date 1934
Author: Lizzy Peneycad
Context (Field collection)
Collected by Captain Robert Powley Wild on 8th June 1935.
Event Date 8/6/1935
Author: maa
Context (Analysis)
Catalogue card for 1936.211 A-C: 'The outside one has cone lozenge shaped crosshatching reminding one of the impressed design on sherd [19]35.674 F.'
Event Date 1936
Author: Lizzy Peneycad
Context (Production / use)
Catalogue card for 1936.211 A-C:
[written in pencil in a third different hand] '(Suman)'
Event Date 1936
Author: Lizzy Peneycad
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1936.211 A-C: '"Fetish dish." Three old brass bowls - one inside the other. The outside one has cone lozenge shaped crosshatching.'
Event Date 1936
Author: Lizzy Peneycad
Description (Physical description)
Shallow bowl of copper alloy sheet metal, possibly of brass, with a wide, rounded, circular base and a flared rim. The rim is decorated with an embossed pattern of lozenges. Each lozenge has a conical shaped relief in the centre, and a border of finely indented lines.
Event Date 20/10/2022
Author: Lizzy Peneycad
FM:299898
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