Spheroid cake made of pounded plant material and oil
Item
Title
Spheroid cake made of pounded plant material and oil
Cake made of castor oil seeds and pounded fruit, mixed with urine and lakula and rubbed on skin [Memo Book, 1936]
Creator
Creator Unrecorded
Subject
Organic Matter
Description
Spheroid cake made of pounded plant material and oil. It is light brown in colour with some darker patches and cracks in the surface. [NSty 08/21]
Small greenish cake used by men and women. It is made from caster oil seeds and pounded fruit. The green colouration comes from standing the cake in a copper bangle (from same mine as the iron). It is spread on the skin. The fruit used is called olomeke and the castor oil seeds are called olomolo. This is according to the Duplicate Memorandum Notebook (see below).
Publisher
Making African Connections
Date
c. 1930
Type
PhysicalObject
Format
Organic
Plant; Fibre
Identifier
ETH.ANG2.1412
A36/1412
1424 (Old Number)
Source
Diana and Antoinette Powell-Cotton
1936
Duplicate Memorandum Book with pencil writing 'Angola 1936' on cover - p. 49-50
Relation
Space/Place
Enclosure of Kavela (blacksmith). After last bend of the River Poponde. Before Mupa. [HFD 07/2021]
[HFD 13/07/2021]
[HFD 13/07/2021]
Cunene Province
Angola
Africa
Cultural group: Vahanda and/or Kwanyama.
Rights
© The Powell-Cotton Trust