wooden snuff flask carved in slender drop-shape

Made:: 1880-1920 in Kenya

wooden snuff flask carved in slender drop-shape
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wooden snuff flask carved in slender drop-shape, three pannanular brass cuffs cover neck, another is secured to projecting foot of base fibre stopper attached to metal chain, Taita tribe, Kenyan, 1880-1920

Details

Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A301657

Materials:: wood, cuffs, brass, stopper, fibre, chain, iron and chain, brass

Measurements:: height 122 mm
diameter 32 mm
chain doubled, plus cord: length 233 mm
neck: diameter 8 mm

type:: snuff flasks

credit:: Church Missionary Society

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