Vintage Tutsi Milk Container 114.4 street scene edible plants and also flowers

edible plants and also flowers during summer

Once upon a time

18cm L × 18cm H × 7cm D

As each is carved from natural onyx

Vintage Tutsi Milk Container 114.4 street scene edible plants and also flowersAn ornate milk container, hand carved from a single block of wood and finished with tin embellishments. Vessels like these were everyday tools among the Tutsi people of Rwanda and nomadic communities across Burundi, Kenya and northern Tanzania, traditionally used to carry milk, water, honey and provisions. Today they make beautiful decorative objects lovely on a mantelpiece, as a dry flower vase, or simply displayed as an object of art. The authentic