Curved bone snuff-spoon with incised decoration of four triangles on one side. Also used as a strigil. [JP 29/10/2001]

Collection type: Object
Description: Curved bone snuff-spoon with incised decoration of four triangles on one side. Also used as a strigil. [JP 29/10/2001]
Geographical reference: South Africa
Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa; KwaZulu / Natal
Cultural groups: Nguni
Person: Field collector Henry D.R. Kingston; PRM source Henry D.R. Kingston
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1900
Date collected: By 1900
Acquisition information: Purchased: 25/07/1900
Materials and processes: Material Bone, Process Carved, Process Incised
Dimensions: Length 160 mm, Width: max 17 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1900.77.7
Associated publications: Referred to on page 24 of 'Stone Age Sub-Saharan Africa', by Peter Mitchell, in World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization, edited by Dan Hicks and Alice Stevenson (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2013), pp. 16-34. Mitchell writes: ‘A little later in date than the objects discussed thus far, but worth noting because they derive from some of the earliest explorations of the very rich archaeological record of the southern Cape coast, are the 85 objects acquired from Henry D.R. Kingston (1900.77.1-83) ... None of these collections is unique in the wider British context (Mitchell 2002a; Roberts 2002 [Catalogue of the southern African Stone Age collections of the British Museum. London: British Museum (British Museum Occasional Papers 108, with contributions from A. Roberts, A. Cohen and K. Perkins)]’. [MJD 14/11/2014]

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