Baganda Milk Jug with Native Repair
Product ID: A2500-037
$1,295.00
About this piece
No metal needed here, just a good lump of wood.
This milk vessel was carved by Baganda hands in Uganda, East Africa, from wood in the 20th century. Wooden milk containers are commonly made across East Africa’s pastoral regions, and are often hollowed from a single block. This one is short and broad, a rounded cylinder that narrows slightly at the top, with a lipped, uneven opening. The wood is a glowing orange-brown with strong grain and darker streaks, polished by long handling. No repair is visible in the photograph.
About 11 inches tall and 8 across. Heavy-looking, warm, and happily useless as a vase.
