Te kumete

Te kumete. Wooden receptacle. This is a carved wooden bowl. It has been carved entirely from one piece of wood. The kumete is low in height, long in width. It takes the form of a trapezoid where the rim tapers outwards from the ractangular shaped base. Hafted nicks feature across the base inside the kumete defining a tool that would have been used to create the kumete. The exterior of the kumete has been smoothed and presents a grainy texture from the wood. The short sides of the kumete show rings from the centre of the trunk defining its placement before it was carved out. The longer sides also feature centre rings showing that this may have been cut from the fork of a trunk. Its overall colour ranges from mid-brown to dark brown tones.