Cast iron cooking pot with handle

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

This is a large open-mouthed circular cast iron cooking bowl with a swinging handle. The pot rests on a narrow base. There is a small lip on one side of the rim. Underneath the lip is a small tab wielded to the side of pot with a metal ring threaded through the tab. The bowl has two flanges protruding upwards on either side of the rim, each with a small hole. A thick metal wire is threaded through these holes and curved upwards to form a swinging handle for the pot.

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