Plaited straw butter dish and cover

Made:: 1890-1925 in Yola

Plaited straw butter dish and cover
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Plaited straw butter dish and cover, concaved circular bowl and cover, edged with leather and decorated with leather fringe and cowrie shells, "cattle" Fulani tribe, Yola, northern Nigeria, 1890-1925

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A106136

Materials:: leather, straw and shells, cowries

Measurements:: height 37 mm
with cover: height 83 mm
bowl: diameter 177 mm
cover: diameter 163 mm

type:: butter dishes

credit:: Ruxton

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Plaited straw butter dish and cover

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