kohl-container
- Museum number
- Af1991,23.18
- Description
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Kohl-container (with iron hanging chain) composed of three dropper bottles with rubber teats embedded in a padded bag of purple cloth with floral print and further embellished with a network of coloured glass and plastic beads and with red and green cotton tassels.
- Production date
- 1991
- Dimensions
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Height: 24 centimetres
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Width: 17 centimetres
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Depth: 5 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Field notes available.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 1991
- Acquisition notes
- Af1991,23.1 to 22 is described in the purchase book as "a small ethnographical collection [formed by Christopher Spring of the Ethnography Department of the BM] during a brief period of fieldwork in the oases of the western desert of Egypt in November 1991." The purchase cost was refunded to him.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1991,23.18