{"id":6883,"date":"2013-02-10T11:17:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T16:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=6883"},"modified":"2013-02-10T14:57:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T19:57:11","slug":"bahima-milk-container-c-1950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=6883","title":{"rendered":"Bahima milk container, c.1950"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A wooden milk container, known as ekyanzi, was made in Uganda, Africa by the Hima\/Bahima tribe in the mid-20th century. It measures 9-1\/2&#8243; tall, with a 2-1\/2&#8243; diameter opening. The wonderfully graphic indigenous repairs, including zipper-like alternating folded tabs to mend cracks, and coin-shaped plugs to fill holes, are made of recycled aluminum. The equally graphic woven covers are not always found with the pots and are collected independently.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_56131.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6956\" alt=\"IMG_5613\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_56131.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_56131.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_56131-248x300.jpg 248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5626.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_5626\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5626.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"382\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5616.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_5616\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5616.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5627.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_5627\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5627.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"448\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5628.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6961\" alt=\"IMG_5628\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5628.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5628.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5628-300x271.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5630.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_5630\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5630.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"396\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Bahima girl with her family&#8217;s wooden milk pots. The lighter colored pots are made from gourds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/JW01-6850.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"JW01-6850\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/JW01-6850.jpg\" width=\"398\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\">Getty Images<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wooden milk container, known as ekyanzi, was made in Uganda, Africa by the Hima\/Bahima tribe in the mid-20th century. It measures 9-1\/2&#8243; tall, with a 2-1\/2&#8243; diameter opening. The wonderfully graphic indigenous repairs, including zipper-like alternating folded tabs to mend cracks, and coin-shaped plugs to fill holes, are made of recycled aluminum. The equally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[164,166,154,61],"class_list":["post-6883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pot","tag-african","tag-aluminum","tag-metal-bands","tag-wood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6883"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6983,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6883\/revisions\/6983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}