AFRICAN MILK BOWL,Tuareg. An Anfrican carved wood milk bowl, the primitively carved vessel with rounded heavy bottom and flared sides decorated with delicate reeded incisions encircling the exterior side and similar diagonal reeding on bottom, with single hole for handle, with tribal restoration of handmade nailed metal parts. Late 19th/early 20th century.
Losses to rim; cracks in bottom. Lacking leather handle. The Tuareg is an almost extinct Northern African nomadic tribe - 5 3/4 in. high x 10 1/2 in diameter. Estimate $400-600