Wooden snuff container in the form of a bottle

Made:: 1890-1920

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Wooden snuff container in the form of a bottle, cylindrical
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Wooden snuff container in the form of a bottle, cylindrical, bulbous in middle with herringbone pattern, long tubular neck, gourd stopper, African, 1890-1920

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A652511

Materials:: wood, gourd, base and stopper and hide

type:: snuff containers

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Wooden snuff container in the form of a bottle

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