container
- Museum number
- Af1999,16.37
- Description
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Container for holding antimony, known locally as "tandu mai 'dunki" or "tandu mai baza"; made of leather; tube of stuffed brown leather with red leather bulb at end of tube; tube threaded with beige and yellow leather; red and yellow leather tassels around bottom of bulb; strip of red leather attached down side of tube for carrying handle; "A851 L31 191" written on strap.
- Production date
- 1970s
- Dimensions
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Height: 27.70 centimetres
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Width: 12 centimetres
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Depth: 4 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
- Af1999,16.37
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 191
