bag
- Museum number
- Af1889,0304.12
- Description
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Bag made of grass cloth with fringes, edged with plaited rope which forms the handle; on one side are three lines of pattern in pale red and black.
- Production date
- 1887 (before)
- Dimensions
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Height: 58.40 centimetres
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Width: 69.40 centimetres
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Depth: 1.80 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1889
- Acquisition notes
- Af1889,0304.1 to 23 were given by [Sir] Harry Johnston in 1889. The objects were all collected in Nigeria in 1886-7, when he was consul in the Cross River and Cameroon district. Nos.1 to 18 are all recorded as from the Upper Cross River (though some had been traded there from elsewhere); nos.19 to 21 are recorded from Calabar; and nos.22 and 23 from Benin.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1889,0304.12
