currency;
hoe
- Museum number
- Af1950,16.6
- Description
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Register 1950:
Iron hoe-blade currency piece in the form of a flat crescentic shape.
- Dimensions
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Height: 4 centimetres
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Width: 12 centimetres
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Depth: 0.20 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1950:
Iron currency piece in the form of a flat crescentic shape.
SAKANIA, distributed at the funeral of a man at GUELEBOM village (SALAMAT).
Nos.1-10 KABBA- SARA-JINGE, N-E of Fort Archambault.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1950
- Acquisition notes
- Af1950,16.1 to 47 were purchased from Mrs R L Hottot in Oxford. According to her letter of 1950 (see Eth Doc. 279) the collection was formed by her late husband, Robert Hottot, 'on his three travels to Africa between 1906-8, but mostly in 1906'; they came from 'various tribes of the Chad region of French Equatorial Africa & the French Congo.'. His main expedition is recorded to have been in 1908-9, and to have taken eight months; he travelled along the rivers of the Congo, the Ubangi and the Chari, ending at Lake Chad (see his biography). The register records her notes on the objects that she supplied in 1950.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1950,16.6