Small, white-enamelled tin cup with blue rim. Production Ethnic Group, Kababish (used by). Made, 20th C (late)
-Description, Object # Af1993,05.10, British Museum
Drinking tea from a glass was de rigueur in the first days’ marches of the Darb, and then one by one the glasses broke and everyone waited to drink their turn from Ibrahim’s kitchen cup, from which he measured millet flour, cooking oil, and a spice mix of dried tomato, okra, and chili pepper into the asīda, which we still tasted no matter how much sugar was poured on top.
British Museum, tin cup used by the Kababish after their tea glasses had shattered