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Description : TSONGA BOWL SOUTHERN AFRICA, 19TH CENTURY carved wood, two figures standing upon a flat base and facing in opposite directions, with elongated arms held above their heads, raising a vessel decorated in alternating bands of light and dark Published: Klopper, S., Nettleton, A., and Pethica, T. (2007). The Art of Southern Africa: The Terence Pethica Collection, Five Continents Editions: Italy. Conru, K. (2005). Southeast African and Oceanic Art, Conru: Brussels. Note: “The style of carving in this bowl is similar to that in figures which have attributed, apparently upon purely stylistic grounds, to a carver named Muhlati, who was mentioned by Junod (1927) as able to make anything. The bowl mimics the form of indigenous pots, but with the addition f the flaring circular base, creating a vessel without parallel in the traditional North Nguni corpus, but with some resemblance to Sotho ceramics in its use of colour and the design on its shoulder. The two figures are carved, and their bodies coloured, in such a way as to suggest that they are wearing shoes, trousers and shirts or jackets, attire that was demanded of the [native African population] when they ventured into colonial towns in the Cape and Natal colonies. The two figures stand with legs bent, arms elongated from elbow to hand to grasp the bowl firmly, as they steady it against their heads. They look in opposite directions so that there is no definable front or back to the group: this also suggests a frozen time as they could not be seen to be performing a narrative action, except perhaps of that pausing between modernity and tradition.” Klopper, S., Nettleton, A., and Pethica, T. (2007). The Art of Southern Africa: The Terence Pethica Collection, Five Continents Editions: Italy, p. 130 n. 55. 
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