Ugandan Bowl with Native Repair

Look at a wide, shallow dish with a single stub handle and some tidy pale stitches on the rim.

This wooden bowl with native repair is from Uganda, East Africa, and dates to the 20th century. It is wood & tin. Tin is a soft, easily worked metal, and a tin patch or staple can hold a cracked wooden bowl together. Broad oval dish in warm brown, with a gently dished inside and a small tab at one end. Pale oval inlays or repairs run in a row along one side of the rim. The surface is dark and worn to a soft glow. It is 11 inches wide, 7.5 deep and 3 high.

Mended with care, and not remotely embarrassed about it.