ladle
- Museum number
- Af1948,15.6
- Description
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Register 1948:
Calabash ladle, painted red and black on a white ground, with floral designs, bronze studs in places and grass tufts at suspension- loop.
- Production date
- 1902 (before)
- Dimensions
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Height: 41.20 centimetres
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Width: 14.50 centimetres
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Depth: 15.40 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1948
- Acquisition notes
- Af1948,15.1-7 were given to the BM by D A MacAlister. They are recorded as having been 'collected by the donor in 1902 during the Arochuku expedition (under Sir Ralph Moor) at Ibum, ca.42 miles east-north-east of Arochuku, east Nigeria.'
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1948,15.6