Bone snuff spoon-cum hair pin

Made:
1880-1930
Bone snuff spoon-cum hair pin

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Bone snuff spoon-cum hair pin
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Bone snuff spoon-cum hair pin, long spatulate type bowl and four pronged handle, one hair pin, (one missing), cross hatched decoration on reverse, East African, 1880-1930

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A157017
Materials:
bone
Measurements:
length 162 mm
bowl: length 62 mm
bowl: width 17 mm
handle: thickness 4 mm
bowl: depth 4 mm
type:
snuff spoons
credit:
Glendining

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