Circular brass tray decorated with an elephant standing in front of a palm tree. [ZM 25/2/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Circular brass tray decorated with an elephant standing in front of a palm tree. [ZM 25/2/2005]
Long description: Circular brass tray decorated with an elephant standing in front of a palm tree. The decoration of the elephant and the palm tree has been made by hammering/punching the brass. The decoration is in low relief. The outside of the vessel has a decorated border of dots and lines. [ZM 25/2/2005]
Geographical reference: Nigeria
Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria; southeastern Nigeria Cross River region Cross River State Calabar
Cultural groups: Igbo; Ejagham; Ibibio Efik
Person: Field collector J. F. Ross; PRM source Mrs J.S. Ross; PRM source Mary E. Lockhead
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1932?, uncertain
Date collected: By 1932?
Acquisition information: Donated: 1966
Materials and processes: Material Brass Metal, Process Decorated, Process Punched, Process Repoussé
Dimensions: Diameter: max 765 mm, Height: max 60 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1966.4.10
Associated publications: For an account of what is known about the production of decorated brass trays in Calabar, see ‘Mermaids and Mami Wata on Brassware from Old Calabar’, by Jeremy Coote and Jill Salmons, in Sacred Waters: Arts for Mami Wata and Other Divinities in Africa and the Diaspora (African Expressive Cultures), edited by Henry Drewal, Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press (2008), pp. 258–75. [JC 23 9 2010]

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