water bottle (bottle (food service)); flask (food service)

Wooden water bottle from Kamchatka, with circular central section decorated with 11 concentric circles in three bands of one of three circles and two for four circles each, and an engraved figure in the centre. The bottle has two arched feet and a stem made of up of triangular and circular shapes leading to a circular mouthpiece.

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