Snuff Mortar (Tesa Ya Ma Kanya)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Dark brown wooden sculpture. A cylindrical object with a wide base and narrower top, adorned with two rows of metal studs around its middle, sits atop a circular base. The top of the cylinder features a small, square-headed figure. Three smaller figures surround the base. One on the left, with a wrapped loincloth, faces right. One on the right, with a hand near their face, faces left. One underneath, a quadruped with a patterned face. The background is grey with a slight shadow cast by the sculpture.