snuff-container
- Museum number
- Af1999,16.35
- Description
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Snuff-container; known locally as 'battan taba'; made of leather; tube of stuffed red leather with bulb at end of tube; tube and bulb each painted with brown stripe across centre, and threaded with beige and yellow leather; strip of red leather attached down side of tube for carrying handle; "A850 L20 180" written on handle.
- Production date
- 1970s
- Dimensions
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Height: 24.20 centimetres
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Width: 4.70 centimetres
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Depth: 4.60 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Heathcote, David. "A Leatherworker of Zaria City. " In: The Nigerian Field 1974;34(3):99-117.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1999
- Acquisition notes
- Cost for entire collection.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1999,16.35
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 180
