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1920.91.13.1

Gourd for containing magic ingredients [.1] with hair stopper [.2] and string cord. [DCF Court Team 23/1/2003]

1920.91.13.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
Gourd for containing magic ingredients [.1] with hair stopper [.2] and string cord. [DCF Court Team 23/1/2003]
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1920
Date collected
By 1920
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1920
Materials and processes
Material Gourd Plant, Material Hair, Material Plant Fibre Yarn, Process Twisted
Dimensions
Height: max 230 mm including stopper, Height: max 150 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1920.91.13.1 Accession number: 1920.91.13.2
Research and responses

Note that Herbert Willoughby Woodward [qv] was based at Magila, Zanzibar for UMCA from circa 1878 - 1921, it seems unlikely, but not impossible that there should have been another Woodward, with different initials [ie A.D. Woodward] based in the same place at about the same time [AP 17/08/2004]

Search terms: Vessel, Status, Religion, Ritual and Ceremonial, Stopper

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