vessel
- Museum number
- Af1945,11.5
- Description
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Register 1945:
Coconut vessel, with incised decoration painted white.
- Production date
- 1887-1891 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 8.60 centimetres
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Width: 9.70 centimetres
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Depth: 9.70 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1945
- Acquisition notes
- Af1945,11.1 to 41 were collected by the doctor R Austin Freeman, and were given to the BM in 1945 by his widow. She bequeathed more items in 1948 (Af1948,25.1 to 41). Freeman was in the Gold Coast and Jaman (the Ghana/Ivory Coast border area) between 1887 and 1891, and all the objects must have been collected then. A few are illustrated in his book, 'Travels and life in Ashanti and Jaman', 1898.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1945,11.5