snuff-box
- Museum number
- Af1960,20.97
- Description
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Snuff container made of hollow reed incised with repeated bands of zig-zag motifs, stopper at one end.
- Production date
- 1839-53 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 1.50 centimetres
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Height: 23.40 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- The accessions register describes the object as follows: "Hollow reed with engraved decoration used as snuff-box, stopper missing." [one stopper is present] and "Reed (Bamboo) snuff boxes and snuff spoons. Natal. Capt. Gardner." [recte Garden]
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Two hairline cracks, the longest approximately 3cm.
- Acquisition date
- 1960
- Acquisition notes
- Af1960,20.1 to 246 is a large collection of African material transferred to the British Museum by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in 1960. Most of these works had been given to Kew in the XIXc, and the recorded provenances refer to those who gave the objects to Kew together with the date of acquisition by Kew.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1960,20.97