MILK JAR
[1-2]: MILK JAR
[3]: Turkana woman making a milk jar from soft wood
[4]: Turkana woman milking a goat into a milk jar
From: Turkana culture, Kenya 🇰🇪Source [1-2]: “African Furniture & Household Objects” by Roy Sieber
Source [3]: Photojournalist, Victor Englebert (victorenglebertphotography.blogspot.com)
Source [4]: David Keith Jones (alamy.com)
Source notes [1-2]: “Wood, leather and fiber strap. H. 11 in. (27.9 cm). Another form of vessel carved by Turkana women”
Source notes [3]: “1973 photo of a Turkana woman of Kenya, near Lake Turkana, carving a perfectly symmetrical milk jug out of a log. Turkana women do wonders with their hands.”
Source notes [4]: “Turkana woman milking a goat into a traditional wooden pot in northern Kenya East Africa. She wears a striped red and white robe and bead necklaces”Observations: women in design and design production, transforming material for both utility and form (braiding fibers), strategic color to enhance form, repair as an unhidden detail / celebrating the life of an object, ease of access (cap tabs in every direction)