Vintage Hima Milk Jug - Uganda Laurie Wiid van Heerden Always instead keep the soil

Always instead keep the soil fairly moist

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Vintage Hima Milk Jug - Uganda Laurie Wiid van Heerden Always instead keep the soilAn almost perfect Hima milk jug (called Ebyanzi); there are no cracks. A really fine specimen from Uganda. This milk jug were used for keeping milk upon milking the cow. Often, as is the case of this jug, it was a measure of the amount of milk that a bride to be had to drink daily to fatten her up as the Bahima people demonstrated their wealth by the fatness of their daughters. The jug is made our of the omusisa tree; carefully carving out the inside