From card: "A & B. Squatty globular wooden box with top which fits over neck of body. Painted in horizontal bands of black, red, and yellow. Made on a lathe. Used for incense or trinkets. (Both parts cracked.) Called zikakasi. Said to be introduced from India." Reference: Bravmann, ReneĀ“ A. 1983. African Islam. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, Pl. 91, p. 112. Identified there as a small lathe-turned lidded bowl ... stained with mangrove dyes and delicately incised; Swahili.