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
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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

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A106136
Materials:
leather, straw and shells, cowries
type:
butter dishes
credit:
Ruxton