Vessel, recycled Dutch yeast container
Sudan, Darfur Province
Collected by Natalie Tobert, 1984-85, acc. 1985.
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from the Pheobe A Hearst Museum Of Anthropology

Re-contextualizing a product that has reached the end of it's legimate life is common practice in cultures where the luxury of disposal does not exist - if you by a tin of yeast - then you are buying the yeast, the material (steel), its manufactured form (can), and its surface / colour.