1900.77.18.1

Collection type

Object

Description

Wooden tobacco box on a round pedestal-like stand with a carved handle between bowl and stand. A horizontal band of black decoration runs around the vessel just under the rim. Repeating vertical lines run from the horizontal band to the stand. For the lid see [1900.77.18 .2] [RM [OPS move] 14/9/2016]

Geographical reference

South Africa

Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa

KwaZulu / Natal

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 Wood Plant

Dimensions

Height: max 225 mm total, Diameter: max 145 mm total, Height: max 170 mm, Diameter: max 143 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1900.77.18.1

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]

Search terms: Box, Narcotic, Vessel, Tobacco Accessory