Snuff bottle

Made:: 1901-1950 in Tanzania

Snuff bottle, gourd with reed as stopper, Sukuma tribe
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Snuff bottle, gourd with reed as stopper, Sukuma tribe, Tanganyika, Africa, 1901-1950

Details

Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A301660

Materials:: gourd and reed

Measurements:: length 96 mm
diameter 62 mm

type:: snuff bottles

credit:: Church Missionary Society

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