Kettle Gallery

Young woman washing clothes at a sink

A young woman at a kitchen sink washing clothes using a washboard. There is a stack of four dinner plates waiting to be washed up, a kettle, and a tin of One-O-One which cleans without scratching. She is wearing a patterned blouse, and is smiling happily

© Mary Evans / Heinz Zinram Collection

1940s, 1944, 40s, Basic, Belfast, Blouse, Bottle, Butler, Cleans, Clothes, Dinner, Domestic, Forties, Froth, Happy, Historical, History, Home, Kettle, Kitchen, Mother, Patterned, Plates, Scratching, Scrubbing, Sink, Smiling, Soap, Stack, Tap, Taps, Tin, Waiting, Wash Board, Washed, Washin G, Wife, Woman, Women, Young

Sudanese kettle drum, 1898

Sudanese kettle drum, 1898 (c). Reputedly taken form Dervish forces at the Battle of Omdurman, 2nd Sudan War (1896-1899) 1898. The object is referred to as a Nihas/Nahas, an object of great importance in Sudanese culture, the ownership of a Nihas is a mark of respect and social standing. Heavy beaten copper shell. Four pairs of bronze suspension rings around rim and below are 38 copper pegs to secure head. Tanned and shaved leather head, possibly cowskin, smooth on top with traces of hair remaining on sides, perforated around side to fit over pegs round the shell. Twisted leather cord passes through eight holes in the edge of the head to form four V shaped tensioning cords joining at a ring underneath the shell. Date: 1898 (circa)

© The National Army Museum / Mary Evans Picture Library

Aristocratic women parading past a'?shop, Tokyo

Aristocratic women parading passing a'?yojiya, a shop selling brushes and toothpicks, Tokyo, 18th century. Young maids carry a mirror and a portable stove in front of four women in fine kimono Female pilgrim ichiko at left. Handcoloured ukiyo-e woodblock print by Toyokuni Utagawa from Shikitei Sanba's Ehon Imayo Sugata (Picture Book of the Modern Forms and Figures, Tokyo, 1916. Reprint of the original from 1802. Handcoloured ukiyo-e woodblock print by Toyokuni Utagawa from Shikitei Sanba's Ehon Imayo Sugata (Picture Book of the Modern Forms and Figures, Tokyo, 1916. Reprint of the original from 1802

© Florilegius