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Chopi and Southern Sotho

Four-legged Vessel for a Chief

1900

Scroll

Chopi and Southern Sotho

Culture: Chopi
Culture: Southern Sotho

Four-legged Vessel for a Chief

1900

Physical Qualities Wood with burnt wood, 9 15/16 × 9 15/16 × 10 1/16 in. (25.2 × 25.2 × 25.5 cm.)

Credit Line Purchased as the gift of the Estate of Allen A. Davis

Object Number 2017.220

The Baltimore Museum of Art, by purchase, 2017; Jacaranda Tribal, New York; Jonathan Lowen, London; Bowmint Collection, Pretoria, South Africa

Baltimore Museum of Art. Permanent collection installation of African Art. December 2021-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, "The Art of Daily Life: Portable Objects from Southeast Africa," April 16, 2011–February 26, 2012.

"Containers for the Living and the Shades: Vessels from Southern Africa." Jacaranda 2022. p31

Nicholas Maritz, "Relics of War: A Collection of 19th Century Artefacts from British South Africa and Southern Rhodesia," 2008.

Constantine Petridis. "The Art of Faily Life: Portable Objects From Southeast Africa." Milan: The Cleveland Museum of Art / 5 Continents Editions, 2011.