Combined snuff box and strigil carved from horn. The snuff box is egg-shaped and from the top extends the strigil carved to resemble a feather-shape. [JP 29/10/2001]

Collection type: Object
Description: Combined snuff box and strigil carved from horn. The snuff box is egg-shaped and from the top extends the strigil carved to resemble a feather-shape. [JP 29/10/2001]
Long description: Description taken from Conservation Card by Heather Richardson 15/11/2001 - Curved length of horn with a bulbous section at the narrower end. Curved length used as strigil and bulbous section A snuff-box. Pointed stopper on end of snuff-box. Horn highly polished. Curved length transparent and yellowish, Bulbous section grey. (Heather Richardson 15/11/2001) [LKG 26/02/2009]
Geographical reference: South Africa
Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa
Cultural groups: Nguni
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source William Downing Webster
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1897
Date collected: By 1897
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1897
Materials and processes: Material Animal Horn, Process Carved
Dimensions: Length 240 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1897.65.4
Research and responses: This object was purchased from William Downing Webster on 5th April 1897. It is listed in Webster’s stock book as no.161 ‘African horn scraper with snuff box’, bought at either Brixton or Buxton on 23rd February 1897. [JMC 16/01/2024]