Animal membrane lid belonging to antimony flask. For the antimony flasks see 1930.51.2 .1 and for the other animal membrane lid see 1930.51.2 .3 3 . All three parts are stored together in a clear-fronted museum box. [CW [OPS move] 19/07/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Animal membrane lid belonging to antimony flask. For the antimony flasks see 1930.51.2 .1 and for the other animal membrane lid see 1930.51.2 .3 3 . All three parts are stored together in a clear-fronted museum box. [CW [OPS move] 19/07/2016]
Geographical reference: Nigeria
Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria; Zaria
Cultural groups: Hausa
Person: Field collector Arthur Geoffrey Gascoyne Webb; PRM source Arthur Geoffrey Gascoyne Webb
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1930
Date collected: By 1930
Acquisition information: Donated: 1930
Materials and processes: Material Animal Hide Skin, Material Animal Membrane, Process Decorated
Dimensions: Height: max 40 mm, Width: max 8 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1930.51.2.3
Associated publications: Illustrated in black and white photograph as figure 18 on plate II of ''The Tandu Industry in Northern Nigeria and its Affinities Elsewhere', by H. Balfour, in Essays Presented to C.G. Seligman, (1934), pp. 5-18. Caption (page 18) reads: 'Plate II. 17 = Small antimony-flask with tubular cover, decorated with strips of hairy cuticle, Katsina, 1930; 18 = double ditto of similar type, collected by A. G. G. Webb in Zaria, N. Nigeria; 19 = antimony-flask decorated with strips of hairy cuticle and dyed leather, Katsina, 1930; 20 = ditto encased in decorative leather-work with leathern fringe, Zaria, 1930. 21 = a similar example, Nigeria; 22 = antimony-flask covered entirely with bead-work, obtained by P. F. Herbert from a Yoruba in Ibadan, S. Nigeria; 23 = snuff-flask, undecorated, with cylindrical cover, Zaria, 1930; 24 = ditto, ditto, Gold Coast, collected by R. P. Wild; 25 = ditto with engraved patterns over the surface, Katsina, 1930; 26 = similarly decorated example, Zaria, 1930; 27 = snuff-flask covered with hairy cuticle, alternately black and white, N. Nigeria, collected by Miss Badcock; 28 = smaller ditto, Zaria, 1930; 29 = snuff-flask encased in a decorative covering of dyed leather, obtained by R. P. Wild from a Hausa trader in the Gold Coast; 30 = a toy model of a gun moulded membrane covered with black and white strips of hairy cuticle and with narrow strips of dyed leather, Nigeria, from Sir R. C. Temple’s collection.' [MJD 01/11/2011]

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