Milk container
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
Unknown
Materials
Clay, Grass, Leather
Place of origin
Somalia
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1304688
Summary
A woven Somali milk container, the exterior partially covered in leather and with a leather carrying strap, the interior lined with clay making it watertight. Lord Egerton number 493P. Collected 27.3.35. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.
Marks and inscriptions
Associated label. Somali milk jug 493P. 14.4.46 TF cleaned. Somali milk jug British Somaliland 27.3.36. 493P.