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Snuff bottle

Cultural attribution according to the inventory book "Kaffirs" Commentary by Nzila M. Mubusisi (National Museum of Namibia), September 2019: "Snuff box, Herero or Damara, design looks familiar"

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Everyday object
Dimensions
H: 6 cm
Material/Technique
Wood (indeterminate)
Object genre
Ethnographica
Current location
Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim
Inventory number
RPM_V 1251

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Late 19th/early 20th century
  • Change of legal title:
    Unknown type of acquisition
    where
    Africa, southern Africa, probably Namibia
    who
    unbekannt - Former Possessors
  • Change of legal title:
    Access
    when
    Not clarified
    where
    Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim
    who
    Not clarified

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Legal status metadata
CC0 1.0 DEED
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