Snuff box

Made:: 1880-1910 in Africa

Snuff box, bone, cylindrical, decorated with incised carving, French Congo, Africa 1880-1910

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A17423G

Materials:: bone

type:: snuff container

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