bowl
- Museum number
- Af1950,36.4.a
- Description
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Register 1950:
Brass bowl, the base plain with ridged rim.
- Production date
- 1880 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 10.80 centimetres (B)
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Height: 22 centimetres (a+b)
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Height: 13 centimetres (a)
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Width: 25.40 centimetres (B)
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Width: 25.70 centimetres (a)
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Depth: 25.70 centimetres (B)
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Depth: 26.30 centimetres (a)
- Curator's comments
- Accompanied by the lid Af1950,36.4.b.
Register 1950:
a&b Brass bowl, & lid, the base plain with ridged rim; the lid with graved & repoussé vegetable [sic] decoration.
Comment by Dr Nadel:
Style in fashion c.1880.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1950
- Acquisition notes
- Af1950,36.1 to 39 were purchased from Dr S F Nadel for a total of £10 10s. The objects are recorded as having been collected by him from the Nupe in Bida between 1934 and 1938, apart from nos.35 and 36 which are Fulani (though also purchased in Bida), and nos.37 to 39 which come from the Sudan or Egypt.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1950,36.4.a
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 38D.14A (Register 1950.)