Pigment pot for tattooing

Pigment pot for tattooing, brass, hide covered, with hide sling

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Pigment pot for tattooing, brass, hide covered, with hide sling
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Pigment pot for tattooing, brass, hide covered, with hide sling, wood stopper, east central Afrrica, 1910-1934

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Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A657942
Materials:
brass, hide, leather and wood, stopper
Measurements:
pot: height 77 mm
including sling: height 252 mm
diameter 48 mm
type:
pigment pots
credit:
Glendining