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Bowl
Nyoro peoples, Uganda Wood 15.9 x 42.5 cm (6 1/4 x 16 3/4 in) 89-8-19, acquisition grant from the James Smithson Society
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Home is not so much a physical space as a social place, a place where the family defines itself through common concerns and activities, such as preparing and sharing food. Activities at home involve two worlds: the family world and the outside world that encroaches. For the presentation of food and drink prepared by the family for friends and guests, special bowls, spoons, ladles, and cups are used. These objects occupy a special position between family intimacy and public formality. They can be distinctive markers that formalize common events.
Home is also a place for creating and maintaining order. Containers of many sorts help store household belongings in their proper places and protects them. A wide variety of materials--wood, calabashes, fibers, and clay--are used to make household containers, or "things that hold things." Carefully conceived and constructed, these objects combine beauty with the task of containment.
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