Himba Milk Pot

I bought this milk pail from a Himba family I encountered along a track near Orupembe, Namibia in 1994. The party as I recall included one young woman in Herero dress and the remainder adorned as Himba, their bodies glistening with fat mixed with red ochre. The pail has some native repairs executed with fiber. The pail had about a year’s worth of use on it at the time. In the regions I visited carved milk vessels were far out numbered by watertight vessels made of dense basketry. In fact this is the only one I found.

9″

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