Producer unknown to us
Tea pot with lid
Africa, Mauritania, Nouakchott
Before 1984
Copper, brass, wood
Wolf-Dieter Seiwert (ethnologist) acquired this tea pot during a research trip to Mauritania in 1984
Purchased by the museum from Seiwert in 1985
NAf 5797 a, b
This pewter teapot was restored from a used pot and decorated with typical decorations such as the knob on the lid and the engravings. The collector bought this teapot from the blacksmith who had carried out the restoration in Nouakchott in November 1984.
Since 1973, Wolf-Dieter Seiwert (*1945) had worked as a curator for the Maghreb and the Sahara at the Leipzig Museum and was part of a research focus group on pastoral nomadism in the deserts between West Africa and Central Asia. Together with Lothar Stein, he visited Libya in 1981 and returned in 1988 for field research in Berber communities in western Libya. In 1984, he received an invitation for a month-long research stay in Mauritania. There, he pursued literary studies in the capital, Nouakchott, and visited nomadic communities such as the Tandġa aš-Šarg in the southwest of the country.
Frank Usbeck