1931.12.21

Collection type

Object

Description

Antimony vessel covered in beadwork of various colours, with beaded tassels.

Geographical reference

Nigeria

Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria

Oyo State Ibadan

Cultural groups

Yoruba

Person

Field collector P.F. Herbert

Field collector Percy Frederick Herbert

PRM source P. F. Herbert

PRM source Percy Frederick Herbert

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1931

Date collected

By 1931

Acquisition information

Donated: 1931

Materials and processes

Material Animal Skin, Material Bead, Process Beadwork

Dimensions

Diameter: max 37 mm, Length 158 mm including extended tassels

Object numbers

Accession number: 1931.12.21

Associated publications

Illustrated in black and white photograph as figure 22 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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