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Early Dug Out Tree Storage Container
Ref: 4559
In the highlands, in the forests, when people lived far from markets or towns and had no access to other materials they used what was at hand, and in ethnographic museums from the Pyrenees to the Eastern Carpathians to Balkan highlands you will find tree trunks dug out to make primitive storage containers usually for maize and other peasant food crops. These pieces often have a sombre and atmospheric presence. This one is neat being small and unusually bleached out. It makes for a great planter. Or just a sculpture, part nature, part man made, like a block.
Eastern Highalnds 19th cent
H: 68cm (26.8in)
W: 57cm (22.4in)
D: 45cm (17.7in)
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