drinking-vessel
- Museum number
- Af1978,07.15
- Description
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Palm wine vessel made of calabash with a ?hemp sacking cover onto whihc are sewn muticoloured glass beads and cowrire shells.
- Dimensions
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Height: 68 centimetres
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Width: 23 centimetres
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Depth: 27.60 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Identified by Bolcit Byanyiko, Wilson Onime, Emily Issa-Emmanuel and Justine Eke as being from the Ibibio peoples of southern Nigeria 08/09/2013
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fair; neck broken.
- Acquisition date
- 1978
- Acquisition notes
- Af1978,07.1 to 67 were given by Mr T H Biss, which was recorded as 'A collection of carvings, brass-ware, leather work and textiles from Nigeria and Cameroon, collected [by the donor] in the 1920s and 1930s.' See further comment on Af1978,07.1 where it is suggested that the beadwork is from the Cameroons.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1978,07.15
