box
- Museum number
- Af1978,22.240
- Description
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Box; carved from wood; rectangular base carved from single piece of wood; four feet attached to bottom, carved to resemble gourd? or seed?; outside of box carved with hatched squares along bottom, diamonds above; base joined to lid with two metal hinges at back; rectangular lid carved from single piece of wood; sides of lid carved with hatched squares; top of lid carved with crocodile resting on coiled snake, right front leg of crocodile in snake's mouth, fish in crocodile's mouth.
- Production date
- 1850-1927
- Dimensions
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Height: 20 centimetres
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Width: 34 centimetres
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Depth: 19 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Edge of one corner of lid broken off.
- Acquisition date
- 1978
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1978,22.240
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: G57 (Barclay number)
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Miscellaneous number: W275