Milk jar
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
Unknown
Materials
Clay, Grass, Leather
Place of origin
Somalia
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1304693
Summary
A Midgan milk jar made from woven grasses with leather straps, the interior lined with clay making it watertight. Lord Egerton number 493S. Collected Somalia 1936. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.
Provenance
Collected by Lord Egerton, Somalia 1936
Marks and inscriptions
Associated label. Midgan milk jar 493S. 28.3.36.