bottle
- Museum number
- Af1956,21.2
- Description
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Calabash bottle engraved with figures of four British naval officers and geometrical designs.
- Production date
- 1897 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 19.70 centimetres
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Width: 8.80 centimetres
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Depth: 8.70 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Attributed by W B Fagg to the Lower Congo.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1956
- Acquisition notes
- Given by Mrs J Trew, daughter-in-law of the paymaster to the 1897 Benin expedition (see Af1956,20.1).
With a note in the Register by W B Fagg, "Perhaps collected by Paymaster Trew on the way to or from the Benin Expedition."
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1956,21.2