snuff-container(?)
- Museum number
- Af1992,18.9
- Description
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Cigar-shaped, hollow wooden vessel (snuff container?) with conical stoppers at each end and with a single chain of blue, white, red, and black glass beads attached to the top surface, allowing it to be worn around the neck.
- Production date
- 20thC(early) (?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 2.50 centimetres (container)
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Length: 33 centimetres (chain of beads)
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Width: 17 centimetres (container)
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Depth: 2.60 centimetres (container)
- Curator's comments
- Collected between 1912-1920 by donor and her mother, Mary Judith Massey.
All items in collection referred to by collector as "Kaffir".
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1992,18.9
