Old East African beaded drinking vessel often using fine sand

often using fine sand

They are expert divers with diving depths of 180m being recorded in search of food

The bones are in very good with all the bones still present and intact

This was a very old male dog and as you can see from the photographs

The exposed ventricles show the valves with associated muscles and even the chordae tendineae

Old East African beaded drinking vessel often using fine sandThis is an interesting item. It is an old beaded drinking vessel made from leather and wood. It looks to be East African, possible Maasai in origin and is certainly very old. The lower half of the vessel is wood with a wide band of leather very finely stitched onto the top. Looking from the inside, it appears that the stitching is so fine that it is waterproof. The whole thing has been painted with what looks to be red ochre with two black rectangles