roulette;
potter's tool/implement
- Museum number
- Af1946,18.50
- Description
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Register 1946:
String roulette. Potter's tool.
- Production date
- 1946 (purchased)
- Dimensions
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Height: 9.10 centimetres
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Width: 0.70 centimetres
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Depth: 0.60 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1946:
Nos.43-55: Potter's tools used by Yoruba women. Ikerre. Ondo Province.
- 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
- Af1946,18.50