LIDDED STORAGE BOWL
[1-3]: LIDDED STORAGE BOWL
[4]: Lozi woman carrying a different yet similarly designed bowl on her head, smiling for the camera
From: Lozi culture, Zambia 🇿🇲Source [1-3]: “Art/artifact: African Art in Anthropology Collections” by Susan Vogel, Arthur C. Danto. Book viewed at @seedarchives in London.
Source [4]: exquisiteafricanart.com/project/lozi-bowl/
Source notes [1-3]: “Wood. L. 19 ¼ in. A variety of carved dishes and bowls are made by the Lozi as containers for food. The oval shape of this example indicates that it might have been used for meat…Perhaps made for sale to foreigners, this box shows no signs of use. The oval form of the box is repeated in the uncolored ears of the elephant (the rest of the object is darkened with a hot knife).”Observations: figurative abstraction/original cubism, contrast in form (plus considerations given to connections), material finish and visual contrast, figurative lid handle invites handling while telling a story, intuitive form