animal remains
- Museum number
- Af1843,0710.19
- Description
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(description from 1843-5 Register)
Hank of raw green silk of two different shades intermixed, and not spun into thread. To it is attached the following memorandum: "No.2 green silk sold at Brini Canu by the Arabs. Purchased at Egga. Paid 150 cowries." 4 1/2 ins length.
- Production date
- 1841 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 17 centimetres
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Width: 10 centimetres
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Depth: 4 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Brini Canu has been identified by Marion Johnson as Brini Kano, ie the city of Kano.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1843
- Acquisition notes
- Af1843,0710.12 to 42 were given by Captain H Dundas Trotter, who had been in charge of the 1841 Niger Expedition, and had collected these objects during that expedition. The 1843-5 register records much associated information from the original labels pasted on when they were collected. Some of these survive, and are of the same type as on the complementary Egga collection given by the Colonial Office, Af1843,0311.1 to 66.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1843,0710.19