snuff-container
- Museum number
- Af1978,22.578
- Description
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Tobacco container made of bamboo; cylindrical; enclosed bung at lower end; removable reed stopper at other. Three bands of vegetal fibre wound round centre.
- Production date
- 1850-1927 (?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 17 centimetres
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Width: 2.50 centimetres
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Depth: 2.30 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Used by the Mijikenda community for storing tobacco. [pers.comm. Jack Obonyo, Nov 2014].
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1978
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1978,22.578
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1274 (Barclay collection number)
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Miscellaneous number: E.Af.23 (Barclay collection number)
