Snuff box

Made:: 1890-1920 in Zimbabwe

Snuff box, hollowed out of dark brown hard wood
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Snuff box, hollowed out of dark brown hard wood, incised ridge design in middle of body, long metal bound neck, Manyika tribe, Mashonaland, Southern Rhodesia, [Zimbabwe], 1890-1920

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A657965

Materials:: wood, brass, copper and strap, leather

Measurements:: height 171 mm
body: diameter 35 mm
neck: diameter 21 mm

type:: snuff boxes

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