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Bone snuff bottle, conical with hide base and cap, long chain attached to bottle, handle of nostril brush also attached, Lumbwa, maker, Kenya, 1890-1915. 'A' card suggests attachment is a nostril brush with brush itself missing, more probably part of an applicator
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A652584
- type:
- snuff bottles
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)
