Vintage Baganda Hima Milk Jug, Uganda - 112.4 Winter Scene with certain patterns traditionally reserved

with certain patterns traditionally reserved for royalty

DimensionsTall: 1138mm H x 743

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Vintage Baganda Hima Milk Jug, Uganda - 112.4 Winter Scene with certain patterns traditionally reservedA vintage Hima milk jug, known as an Ebyanzi, from the Bahima people of Uganda. Carved hollow from omusisa tree wood, then soaked in mud in a shallow well for a week before being blackened over the soot and smoke of a lamp. Used for storing milk after milking the cow, these jugs also doubled as a measure: a bride to be was expected to drink a jug's worth of milk daily in the lead up to her wedding, the Bahima measuring a family's wealth by the fatness