drinking-vessel;
stand
- Museum number
- Af1978,07.16.a-b
- Description
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Palm wine vessel (a) and separate stand (b) both made of calabash with a ?hemp sacking cover onto which are sewn muticoloured glass beads and cowrie shells.
- Dimensions
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Height: 53 centimetres (a)
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Height: 9 centimetres (b)
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Width: 20 centimetres (a)
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Width: 16 centimetres (b)
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Depth: 17 centimetres (a)
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Depth: 16.20 centimetres (b)
- 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
- Poor; neck of gourd is broken.
- Acquisition date
- 1978
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1978,07.16.a-b