wooden snuff flask carved in slender drop-shape

Made:
1880-1920 in Kenya
wooden snuff flask carved in slender drop-shape

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wooden snuff flask carved in slender drop-shape
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wooden snuff flask carved in slender drop-shape, three pannanular brass cuffs cover neck, another is secured to projecting foot of base fibre stopper attached to metal chain, Taita tribe, Kenyan, 1880-1920

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A301657
Materials:
wood, cuffs, brass, stopper, fibre, chain, iron and chain, brass
type:
snuff flasks
credit:
Church Missionary Society