Vintage Tutsi Milk Container 26 Sports elephants roam outside master bedroom

elephants roam outside master bedroom windows

Size: 41cm L x 33cm W x 56cm H

Recess Size: 21cm Diameter x 20cm Depth

A hand-painted miniature figure of Sir Winston Churchill

Vintage Tutsi Milk Container 26 Sports elephants roam outside master bedroomAn 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