Bone snuff spoon with two bowl
- Made:
- 1880-1915 in South Africa
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Bone snuff spoon with two bowl
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Bone snuff spoon with two bowl
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Bone snuff spoon with two bowl, attached to fine beadwork necklace, probably arranged so that snuff can be conveyed to both nostrils at once, Zulu tribe, South Africa, 1880-1915
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A658314
- Materials:
- bone, necklace, glass, bead, necklace, fibre and necklace, brass, buttons
- Measurements:
-
length 78 mm
bowl: width 14 mm
depth 10 mm
necklace, doubled: length 260 mm
- type:
- snuff spoons
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)
