UKHAMBA - ZULU CLAY BEER POT

Traditional Zulu beer pots called ukhamba in the Zulu language, are rimless pots made from fine clay are produced by women throughout the KwaZulu-Natal region.

Pots of this kind are made for serving & drinking a sorgham-based beer that is brewed in larger, roughly made clay vessels. The drinking of this beer is associated not only with the living, but also with the dead, to whom it is offered whenever ritual dictates that the ancestors must be remembered & appeased.

At the beginning of a meal or a visit, the beer pots would be passed around for everyone to drink. The  pot would pass from the eldest male to the youngest, and if females were present, which was very rare, the eldest woman would drink, with the pot ending at the youngest.

 UKHAMBA

FIRED EARTHEWARE POT

SIZE : 30CM (H) X 30CM X 30CM

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