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Kuba Tukula Storage Container
Tukula or twool is the product of grinding African sandalwood or Pterocarpus soyauxii powder. The Kuba used tukula both as a dry powder and as a paste mixed with palm oil. Kuba women employed tukula for various tasks: to decorate the face and chest, to anoint bodies for burial and, in combination with other pigments, to dye cloth. Lidded boxes such as these functioned as storage vessels for tukula. Collected in Kinshasa before 1973 by U.S. ambassador Robert Keating.
5.5″
