Ivory snuff containers

Made:
1880-1925
Ivory snuff containers

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Ivory snuff containers
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Ivory snuff containers, roughly cylindrical but tapers towards rim, sealed with wooden disc, detachable wooden top section ending in cup-shaped head, no stopper, Kenyan (?), 1880-1925

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A301659
type:
snuff containers
credit:
Church Missionary Society