Snuff box with removable leather lid
1800 (?) - before 1893Metal; Gourd; Brown leather
Object: Snuff box with removable leather lid
- Artist | Manufacturer:
- Unknown maker
- Title:
- Snuff box with removable leather lid
- Date:
- 1800 (?) - before 1893
- Inventory Number:
- 1898-013/107
- Collection:
- Non european collections
- Domain:
- Africa
- Designation:
- Snuffbox
- Material | Technique:
- Metal; Gourd; Brown leather
- Description:
- Made up of a small bottle-shaped calabash, partly covered in tin. A leather lid is held on the side of the snuff box by a small leather strap. - Descriptive inventory by Nicolas Van Werveke of the Spring ethnographic collection. N.B.: this is a faithful transcription of Van Werveke's inventory, the terms used in 1898 have not been modified, even those whose use is considered critical today.
- Location:
- Depot
- Acquisition method:
- Donation
- Acquisition date:
- 1898
- Copyright:
-
Work: Public Domain
Image(s): CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) | Patrick Quinteira / MNAHA
Metadata: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
- Photographer:
- Patrick Quinteira
Object: Snuff box with removable leather lid
- Artist | Manufacturer:
- Unknown maker
- Title:
- Snuff box with removable leather lid
- Date:
- 1800 (?) - before 1893
- Inventory Number:
- 1898-013/107
- Collection:
- Non european collections
- Domain:
- Africa
- Designation:
- Snuffbox
- Material | Technique:
- Metal; Gourd; Brown leather
- Description:
- Made up of a small bottle-shaped calabash, partly covered in tin. A leather lid is held on the side of the snuff box by a small leather strap. - Descriptive inventory by Nicolas Van Werveke of the Spring ethnographic collection. N.B.: this is a faithful transcription of Van Werveke's inventory, the terms used in 1898 have not been modified, even those whose use is considered critical today.
- Location:
- Depot
- Acquisition method:
- Donation
- Acquisition date:
- 1898
- Copyright:
-
Work: Public Domain
Image(s): CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) | Patrick Quinteira / MNAHA
Metadata: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
- Photographer:
- Patrick Quinteira
