snuff-container;
box;
ear-ornament
- Museum number
- Af,+.8497
- Description
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Snuff-container made out of hollow reed, incised with eight bands of repeat triangle motif, each with chequered lozenge design, a stopper of gourd [?] at each end.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 2.10 centimetres
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Height: 9.80 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- According to the accession slip this item was, like a similar piece Af,+8495, given to the British Museum by A.W. Franks on 7 April 1897 and is noted as being from “Natal. (from Kew.)”. Compare with a group of similar snuff-containers, also from Natal and ex Kew: Af1960,20.97; Af1960,20.98.a-b; Af1960,20.99.a-b; Af1960,20.100; Af1960,20.101 [97-101 from Capt. Gardner]; Af1960,20.105.a-b; Af1960,20.106 [105-106 from the Bishop of Natal].
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Good.
- Acquisition date
- 1897
- Acquisition notes
- According to the accession slip this item was, like a similar piece Af,+8495, given to the British Museum by A.W. Franks on 7 April 1897 and is noted as being from “Natal. (from Kew.)”.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af,+.8497
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Af1897C2.8497 (old CDMS no.)
