Wooden snuff flask carved in the form of a bottle
- Made:
- 1880-1920
Wooden snuff flask carved in the form of a bottle, base and neck coiled with brass wire, herring bone design incised onto body, without stopper, Eastern Congo, 1880-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A39126
- Materials:
- wood, brass and base, gourd
- Measurements:
-
height 150 mm
body: diameter 42 mm
base: diameter 36 mm
neck: diameter 21 mm
- type:
- snuff flasks