vessel
- Museum number
- Af1948,25.28
- Description
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Bottle-shaped gourd vessel, perforated at both ends, with incised hearts, triangles, and tridents which outline two crocodiles with one belly.
- Dimensions
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Height: 38 centimetres
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Width: 9 centimetres
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Depth: 9 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1948:
Bottle-shaped gourd, perforated at both ends, witn incised hearts, triangles, and tridents which outline 2 crocodiles with one belly.
19- GOLD COAST & JAMAN.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1948
- Acquisition notes
- Register 1948:
Collected by the testator's husband in c. 1888 (see R Austin Freeman, "Travel & Life in Ashanti & Jaman" pp. 148-152, & figure of mask.)
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1948,25.28