Cooking pot

Note: The following text is taken from a 19th-century collection catalog and, in its language and perspective, partially reflects colonial thought patterns. We present the text in its original version to make the collection's history transparent and promote a critical examination of the colonial legacy. Certain terms and formulations may be perceived as problematic today. A 2009 research project concluded that most descriptions are factually correct and still usable; only a few details were found to be inaccurate or incorrect. The results of this project were published in the following collection catalog: khm-wmw-tm-library.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1457155265"164. Cooking pot  - "Uring".A cooking pot which is remarkable for its peculiar form and reminds us of those containers found in diggings in Europe from the Bronze and Stone Ages. The bottom of the pot is convex so that the pot cannot stand and thus each one must have a stand of woven rattan on which it can rest when it is taken from the fire. The pot is wide, round-bodied and tapers to the top to a rather small opening which is surrounded by a rim bent out "like a shirt cuff"."Translation of: Czurda, F. A. J. (1883). Catalog mit Erklärungen der Etnografischen Privatsammlung des Dr. F. A. J. Czurda in Postelberg (Böhmen). (p. 41). Wien, Wilhelm Braumüller