personal ornament;
snuff-box
- Museum number
- Af1933,0609.28
- Description
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Personal ornament (with two tin snuff boxes embossed with the image of King George V) made of beads (glass), thread (fibre), tin (English), string (fibre).
- Production date
- 1850-1933
- Dimensions
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Height: 48 centimetres
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Width: 20 centimetres
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Depth: 2 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- In: Giblin, J., & Spring, C., 2016, ‘South Africa: the art of a nation’. London, Thames and Hudson, pp 146, 152-4
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
Exhibited:
2016-2017 27 Oct-26 Feb, London, BM, G35, South Africa: the art of a nation
- Condition
- Good
- Acquisition date
- 1933
- Acquisition notes
- "Presented through NACF" added in pencil to Ethnography Department Donors Book entry (not noted in Register).
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1933,0609.28