potter's tool/implement
- Museum number
- Af1946,18.183
- Description
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Reed piece; tool used by female potters.
- Production date
- 1946 (purchased)
- Dimensions
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Height: 11.30 centimetres
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Width: 0.40 centimetres
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Depth: 0.40 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1946:
Nos.168-188 are potter's tools used by women. Acquired 21.2.46
Nos.183-185 are reed pieces, used by the Jaba of Kwoi.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1946
- Acquisition notes
- Af1946,18.1 to 397 is a collection of contemporary objects purchased in Nigerian markets by H J Braunholtz, the Keeper of the Department of Ethnography in the BM, on a study visit in 1946. The Register contains his notes on the local name, function and place of acquisition of each item. See further comment on Af1946,18.1.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1946,18.183