Snuff-flask made from small bottle-gourd, covered with beadwork.

Collection type: Object
Description: Snuff-flask made from small bottle-gourd, covered with beadwork.
Geographical reference: South Africa
Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa; Eastern Cape Tsolo [St Cuthbert's Mission]
Cultural groups: Xhosa; Mpondomise
Person: Field collector Frank Cornner; PRM source Frank Cornner
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1923
Date collected: By 1923
Acquisition information: Donated: 1923
Materials and processes: Material Gourd Plant, Material Bead, Process Beadwork
Dimensions: Height: max 100 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1923.34.14
Research and responses: For information on the collector, the mission for which he worked (St Cuthbert at Tsolo), and the wider context, see 'Jubilee Dandies: Collecting Beadwork in Tsolo, Eastern Cape 1897–1932', by Anitra Nettleton, in African Arts, Vol. 46, no. 1 (Spring 2013), pp. 36–49. (Printout of article in RDF for collection 1923.34.) [JC 25 11 2015]
For information on the collector, the mission for which he worked (St Cuthbert at Tsolo), and the wider context, see 'Of Severed Heads and Snuff Boxes: "Survivance" and Beaded Bodies in the Eastern Cape, 1897–1932', by Anitra Nettleton, in African Arts, Vol. 48, no. 4 (Winter 2015), pp. 22–33. (Printout of article in RDF for collection 1923.34.) [JC 25 11 2015]

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