Snuff Box; Nakana
Item
Title
Snuff Box; Nakana
Creator
Unrecorded
Description
Physical Description: Snuff container made from a small round red-brown gourd with a circular hole in the top.
Contextual Description: Is made from a type of nut, definately not a gourd. TS comments
Publisher
Making African Connections
Date
Pre 1918
Type
PhysicalObject
Format
Whole: 45 mm x 50 mm
Gourd
Identifier
R1920/34
Source
Donated to Brighton Museum in 1918 by Arthur Foster Griffith, along with a large collections of 'Minerals, antiquities and ethnographical specimens'. He was a local Alderman, Solicitor, Naturalist, and Collector, and was involved in the Booth Museum committee.
This is the only item in the collection recorded as being from Bechuanaland.
This is the only item in the collection recorded as being from Bechuanaland.
A F Griffith
Pre 1918
Space/Place
Botswana, Southern Africa, Africa
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
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