Wooden snuff flask carved in the form of a bottle

Wooden snuff flask carved in the form of a bottle

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Wooden snuff flask carved in the form of a bottle
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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

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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