Milk container
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
Unknown
Materials
Clay, Grass, Leather
Measurements
255 mm (Length)200 mm (W)
Place of origin
Somalia
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1304689
Summary
A woven Somali milk container, the exterior partially covered in leather and the interior lined with clay making it watertight. Lord Egerton number 491C. Collected 20.3.36. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.
Marks and inscriptions
Associated label. Somali milk jar. British Somaliland 20.3.36. 491C.