Pottery vessel with strap handle decoration and one side a figure of a seated woman wearing apron. Figure and pot decorated with incised lines and fingernail marks.
This pot is from a woman's shrine to the god Olokun and is associated with her fertility. It must be kept filled with river water. It has the form of a pregnant woman. ~Register 1948: Pottery vessel with strap handle decoration & one side a figure of a seated woman wearing apron. Figure & pot decorated with incised lines & fingernail marks. EDO tribe, S-W. NIGERIA.