Black horn snuff container
- Made:
- 1880-1920 in South Africa
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Black horn snuff container, tubular with slightly concaved sides, hemispherical stopper with inlaid eye, possibnly Zulu or Xhosa tribe, South Africa, 1880-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A39147
- Materials:
- horn
- Measurements:
-
height 57 mm
with stopper: height 65 mm
diameter 17 mm
with lugs: length 22 mm
- type:
- snuff containers
