rounded body; small flat foot; medium-sized neck with outward-flaring mouth rim; predominately medium brown tones; applied horizontal wavy ribs on body and neck; some darker brown stripes between ribs; one cream-colored stripe between ribs on body, with remnants of cream-colored stripe at base of neck; rather heavy with audible bits inside base (?)

Pot, c. 1950

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A rare pot of unknown function whose maker we are not sure about—that is what you are looking at. What we see is a strikingly decorated and colored bottle-shaped vessel collected in Rwanda, in Central Africa. Said to have belonged to the court of the Tutsi aristocracy, it may well have been made by a Ge-Sera potter for the Tutsi. The Ge-Sera, short-statured peoples who originally inhabited the area, are accomplished potters. They are often referred to as “Twa,” a term used by their neighbors that means either “little people” or “bush people.”

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rounded body; small flat foot; medium-sized neck with outward-flaring mouth rim; predominately medium brown tones; applied horizontal wavy ribs on body and neck; some darker brown stripes between ribs; one cream-colored stripe between ribs on body, with remnants of cream-colored stripe at base of neck; rather heavy with audible bits inside base (?)