Ivory snuff spoon

Made:: 1880-1925

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Ivory snuff spoon, lanceolate bowl with deep well
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Ivory snuff spoon, lanceolate bowl with deep well, on elaborately carved handle terminating in tapering spine, circular in section, Congolese, 1880-1925

Details

Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A89805

Materials:: ivory

type:: snuff spoons

credit:: Glendining

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