snuff-container
- Museum number
- Af1950,42.35
- Description
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Pair of globular snuff containers joined together with twisted fibre cords decorated with light blue, dark blue and white glass beads. Containers and stoppers made of gourd. Each container has glass bead cover in same colours as above.
- Production date
- 20thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Height: 18 centimetres
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Width: 9 centimetres
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Depth: 4 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Good.
- Acquisition date
- 1950
- Acquisition notes
- Found un-numbered with 'duplicate' collections in 2013. Associated label marked '1950 Af42 duplicate'. Object added to the end of this collection.
Collected between 1904 & 1914 by the vendor & her late husband, A M D Turnbull, senior commsioner in Tanganyika Territory.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1950,42.35
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: Af1979,01.4858 (previous number)
