- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Potting tool of mussel shell.
- Geographical reference
- Southern Angola Huila province Capelongo near Quipungo
- Cultural groups
- Cipungu
- Person
- Field collector Antoinette Powell-Cotton
- Field collector Diana Powell-Cotton
- PRM source Antoinette Powell-Cotton
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1936
- Date collected
- 1936 - 1937
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1940
- Materials and processes
- Material Mussel Shell
- Dimensions
- Length: max 86 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1940.7.206 Other numbers: 37.824
Search terms: Pottery, Tool, Potter's Tool
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