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Sacrificial pot

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Sacrificial pot from the Ruanzore Mountains. Designed for use in human sacrifices, to pour libations of blood to the four winds. Brought from Africa by the explorer John E. Salvin Moore.

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Date supported

1955

Medium and material

Terracotta

Gifted by

O J S Moore

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