Vintage Baganda Hima Milk Jug, Uganda - 112.4 tourism Imagine this lone fisherman drifting

Imagine this lone fisherman drifting across a mossy "lake" or tucked under the canopy of a lush fern

Origin: Indonesia  ·  Material: natural onyx  ·  Size: 32 × 26 × 7cm

face and beadwork

designed to sit atop a water layer or slide down a slate waterfall

Vintage Baganda Hima Milk Jug, Uganda - 112.4 tourism Imagine this lone fisherman driftingA 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