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Beer Pot (ukhamba)
Beer Pot (ukhamba)
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Beer Pot (ukhamba)

Maker Zulu Artist
Date20th century
Place of originSouth Africa, Africa
MediumClay, animal fat
Dimensions12 3/4 in. (32.4 cm)
ClassificationsFurnishings and Equipment
Credit LineGift of Norma Canelas Roth and William D. Roth
Object number2006.45.15
Collections
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Beer Storage Vessel (uphiso)
Zulu Artist
20th century
Beer Storage Vessel (Uphiso)
Beer Storage Vessel (Uphiso)
Zulu Artist
20th century
Pot with rounded form; incised plant and zig-zag design (outlines filled with multiple parallel lines); black; basketry lid with beadwork (red, green, yellow, blue & black); no lip or foot; globular body.
Beer Pot with Lid (ukhamba with imbenge)
Zulu Artist
20th century
Spherical form; incised scalloped and triangle designs; dark brown; no lid.
Zulu Beer Pot (ukhamba)
Nesta Mathom Nala
2004
Rimless spherical vessel with raised pattern (umasumpa) of 4 rectilinear blocks on shoulder in cross formation; blackened and burnished surface
Beer pot (izikhamba)
Zulu Artist
20th century
Rimless ovoid pot with raised decoration on shoulder, 4 hemicycles; burnished and blackened surface.
Beer pot (izikhamba)
Zulu Artist
20th century
Beer pot
Beer pot
Zulu Artist
20th century
Beaded in black-and-white zig-zag design over entire top surface; rim with alternating lengths of green glass seed-beads, basketry visible inside bears four designs in green and red dyed fiber.
Zulu Beer pot lid (imbenge)
Zulu Artist
1960s
Beaded in black-and-white "flower" design covering the outer surface with concentric circles of rhombus shapes in increasing diameter from the centerpoint, where a small protrusion of white seed beads ends in a larger green glass bead. One yellow seed bead is amongst the white. The basketry visible inside the imbenge bears four dyed designs, two red, two green; the outer ring of basketry is dyed green.
Zulu Beer pot Lid (imbenge)
Zulu Artist
1960s
Beaded in white, black, red and blue seed beads in "lightning" zigzags emanating from a black circle at the center of the basket and leading to the edge where they are enclosed by two black circles and one white of beads running along the perimeter. The basketry visible inside the imbenge bears four dyed designs, two red, two green; the outer ring of basketry is dyed green.
Zulu Beer pot Lid (imbenge)
Zulu Artist
1960s
A white mesh of seed beads covers the outside of this imbenge, as set off by diamond-shapes of red, green, black, and blue seed beads and encircled by two rows of larger green beads, in turn encircled by white seed beads. The basketry visible inside the imbenge bears four dyed designs in red and green.
Zulu Beer pot Lid (imbenge)
Zulu Artist
1960s
Patterns of beads lie upon the open basketry of this imbeng. Two truncated triangles lie opposite each other, one in black, red, and yellow, stripes, the other white, black, green, and red, in interior triangles and stripes. The center of the basket holds a circle of larger white beads woven to strand up and away from the surface. At the two other cardinal points, two lines of pinkish beads in clusters of seven are on one side, while clusters of seven red and black beads are on the other.
Zulu Beer pot Lid
Zulu Artist
1950s

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