Zulu Food Platter - Hand carved (41-10) Plant with a slim middle

with a slim middle

This design is surrounded in Cowrie shells and thousands of black and white tiny beads with a central cluster of Cowrie beads

to avoid cracking

The seats were crescent-shaped

Zulu Food Platter - Hand carved (41-10) Plant with a slim middleThis is extra ordinary Old Zulu Wood Carved Tray or Platter from South Africa. This tray is carved out of a single piece hard wood. Such trays were used with great formality to serve different types of foods. This wonderful handcrafted wooden Zulu platter is known by the local Zulu people as an ugqoko. The wood used does vary but in most cases the Zulu would use the Kiaat wood that is found locally in South Africa. The Zulu serving plate is an