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1. 35mm Camera

35mm Camera
Date:
1965
Description:
Cavalier EE Auto 35mm Camera; Modified/renamed version of Taron Auto EE (1963); in leather carrying case; c. 1965.

3. Raffia basket

Raffia basket
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
Yellow, violet, and natural coiled raffia basket with two handles; tray-shaped, repetitive geometric decorations in natural raffia within violet bands, edge is three rows of tightly woven material with handles on either side, plain underside; origin Uganda.

4. Raffia basket

Raffia basket
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
Yellow, violet, and natural coiled raffia basket; repetitive geometric decorations in natural raffia within violet bands, edge is three rows of tightly woven material, plain underside; origin Uganda.

5. Bellows

Bellows
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
Bellows used with tuyere and kiln; top skin and stick are missing; origin Uganda.

6. Wooden boar carving

Wooden boar carving
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
Black wooden boar, tail pointed upward and head turned as if ready to charge, origin Uganda.

8. Soapstone Bowl

Soapstone Bowl
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
Black soapstone bowl; plain except for one decoration around rim; origin East Africa.

9. Water buffalo

Water buffalo
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
Black and brown water buffalo, head turned, origin Uganda.

12. Wooden camel carving

Wooden camel carving
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
Wooden camel with blanket carved on top of hump, origin Uganda.

13. Carved wooden figure

Carved wooden figure
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
Wooden figure with tether headdress of wire and a shield, made for tourists, origin Uganda.

14. Carved wooden head

Carved wooden head
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
Carved wooden head of a cattle herder, made for tourists, origin west Kenya.

15. Carved wooden head

Carved wooden head
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
Carved wooden head of a cattle herder, made for tourists, origin west Kenya.

16. Carved wooden head

Carved wooden head
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
Carved wooden head made for tourists, origin Uganda.

17. Carved wooden head

Carved wooden head
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
Carved wooden head made for tourists, origin Uganda.

19. Wooden leopard carving

Wooden leopard carving
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
Wooden leopard with painted spots, origin Uganda.

21. Wooden giraffe carving

Wooden giraffe carving
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
Wooden giraffe with painted black spots and head facing backwards; origin Uganda.

22. Wooden hippopotamus carving

Wooden hippopotamus carving
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
Brown wooden hippopotamus with open mouth and turned head, origin Uganda.

23. Wooden zebra carving

Wooden zebra carving
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
Wooden zebra with painted black stripes, origin Uganda.

24. Wooden lion carving

Wooden lion carving
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
Brown wooden lion with open mouth, origin Uganda.

26. Decorated wooden container

Decorated wooden container
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
Wooden container with lid and two handles; lid has star and heart design, body has two leopards, origin Kenya.

27. Decorated wooden container

Decorated wooden container
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
Wooden container with lid; plant design burned into wood, origin Kenya.

29. Ostrich egg

Ostrich egg
Date:
1965
Description:
Ostrich egg shell for storing and drinking water; "Happy Easter Josephine" is inscribed along with two hearts, most likely an Easter gift from Colin Turnbull to Joseph Towles during their time studying the Ik people of Uganda.

30. Fly wrist

Fly wrist
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
Ritual fly wrist used by doctors; long wooden handle with some type of hair attached; purchased from Turkana (Kenya).

31. Wooden slit gong

Wooden slit gong
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
Wooden slit gong with two handles carved on each side, one with metal and straw wrapped around it; metal strip and random nails nailed onto one side; origin Rwanda.

32. Harp

Harp
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
Five string harp with a wooden body, animal skin across top, cord strings; very decorated with geometric pattern wood-burned into body, arm has giraffe-like spots; origin Uganda.

33. Soapstone head

Soapstone head
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
Soapstone pear-shaped head with accented nose and lips, made for tourists, origin west Kenya.

34. Soapstone head

Soapstone head
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
Soapstone pear-shaped head with accented nose and lips, made for tourists, origin west Kenya.

35. Tuyere (kiln part)

Tuyere (kiln part)
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
End of a pottery tuyere used in a kiln; a tuyere is a tube through which air or oxygen is blown into a blast furnace, a ceramic blow tube to keep the furnace hot; origin Uganda.

36. Small wooden pot

Small wooden pot
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
Small wooden pot, crudely done; origin Ik people of Uganda.

37. Soapstone vase

Soapstone vase
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
Soapstone vessel in the shape of a small vase with wide mouth and narrow neck, origin West Kenya.

38. Wooden stool

Wooden stool
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
Wooden, three-legged stool that appears to have been carved from one piece of wood; origin Ik people of Uganda.

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