Large vintage East African Tanzanian gourd with large figural stopper.

You are looking at a fur covered Tanzanian Kwere medicine container is a hollow gourd (calabash) featuring a hand-carved woodenhuman figurestopper.

Traditional healers used these vessels to hold sacred powders,protective liquids, or ritual medicines, with the figural stopper symbolizingancestral spirits that activated the contents.

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