Carved wooden snuff box with separate lid fitting

Made:: 1850-1920

Carved wooden snuff box with separate lid fitting over tubular neck, conical and covered with metal studs embedded in dark plaster substance, from West Africa, 1850-1920

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Object Number:: A39135

Materials:: brass, ? material, copper, wood

type:: snuff boxes, ethnography (african), smokiana (containers), ethnography (african), smokiana (containers), snuff box

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