Vintage Baganda Hima Milk Jug, Uganda - 112.3 Bowls with subtle variations that enhance

with subtle variations that enhance its charm

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Vintage Baganda Hima Milk Jug, Uganda - 112.3 Bowls with subtle variations that enhanceA vintage Hima milk jug, known as an Ebyanzi, from the Bahima people of Uganda. Carved hollow from omusisa tree wood, then soaked in mud in a shallow well for a week before being blackened over the soot and smoke of a lamp. Used for storing milk after milking the cow, these jugs also doubled as a measure: a bride to be was expected to drink a jug's worth of milk daily in the lead up to her wedding, the Bahima measuring a family's wealth by the fatness