Gurage Mukecha or Coffee Grinding Vessel

Pale, knobby stick pokes out of a dark pot with a little ear on its side.

This mukecha or coffee grinding vessel is Gurage, from Ethiopia, East Africa, and dates to the 19th century. It is wood. The Gurage are a people of south-central Ethiopia, known for farming and for the cultivation of enset, a plant sometimes called the false banana. Dark brown cylinder on a thick foot ring, with a small projecting lug at the left side. A pale, tall, crooked stick with a weathered grain stands in the hole and leans slightly to the right. It is 7.5 inches wide and 7.25 high.

Mismatched tones, but very much a matched pair.