Palm Wine Container
Mfumte
1950–1999
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Dimensions
- 39 × 34 × 34 cm (15 3/8 × 13 7/16 × 13 7/16 in.)
- Genre
- Vessel
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
modeling (forming)vesselterracotta (sculpture)ceramicsafrican Artarts of AfricaCoastal West Africamfumteceramicterracotta
About
Throughout much of Cameroon, potters spend a considerable amount of time making containers for serving and drinking palm wine, the sharing of which is an important gesture of hospitality that fosters communion with ancestors. For these reasons, palm wine is an essential part of court and regulatory society ritual. [See also 1995.11, 2004.742, 2005.274, 2005.274].