Piece of snuff or carotte

Made:
1910-1916
Piece of snuff or carotte, mainly made of tobacco

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Piece of snuff or carotte, mainly made of tobacco
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Piece of snuff or carotte, mainly made of tobacco, lanceolate in section, general appearance, loaf shaped with triangular impressions, Kaffir tribe, South Africa, 1910-1916

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A652435
Materials:
tobacco
Measurements:
height 50 mm
length 175 mm
width 64 mm
type:
carotte
credit:
Pyper, C.

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