box
- Museum number
- Am1978,15.1228
- Description
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Box with lid; carved from polished onyx; rectangular base with bevelled rim around bottom; rectangular lid with bevelled edges attached to base with two metal hinges.
- Production date
- 1970s
- Dimensions
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Height: 5 centimetres
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Width: 13.50 centimetres
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Depth: 10 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1977-1978, London, Horniman Museum
- Acquisition date
- 1978
- Acquisition notes
- Objects collected during the 1970s by Chloë Sayer and Marcos Ortiz. They were exhibited in 1977-1978 at the Horniman Museum, and later acquired by the British Museum.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1978,15.1228