drinking-vessel

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Object Type
Museum number: Af1978,07.15
Description: Palm wine vessel made of calabash with a ?hemp sacking cover onto whihc are sewn muticoloured glass beads and cowrire shells.
Production place: Made in: Grasslands
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Grasslands
Materials: gourd; glass; hemp (?); cowrie shell; flax
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 68 centimetres; Width: 23 centimetres; 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 name
Acquisition date: 1978
Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number: Af1978,07.15
Conservation: Treatment: 03 Aug 1995; Surface cleaning to remove museum dirt, external surface particulate matter accumilated in museum storage.: 31/10/2018; Treatment: 02 Dec 2016

Free entry