box;
pigment sample
- Museum number
- Af,+.932.a
- Description
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Box made of semi-transparent skin; the cover engraved and coloured red.
- Production date
- 1874-8
- Dimensions
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Height: 4.80 centimetres (a+b)
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Width: 8.50 centimetres (a+b)
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Depth: 8.50 centimetres (a+b)
- Curator's comments
- Slip records: 'Hide box from the Niger.'
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1878
- Acquisition notes
- Af,+.881 to Af,+.963.a were given to the BM by A W Franks on 1 October 1878. This is a single collection that he had acquired from Mrs Elizabeth Dumaresq, which had been formed by her late husband John Dumaresq, while he was the Administrator of Lagos between 1874 and 1878.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af,+.932.a
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Af1878C2.932a (old CDMS no.)