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Tobacco tins

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Historical main catalogue: "Four tobacco containers a. Fruit shell covered with fur (scrotum). Seamless. b c small gourds d = a, but without fur. Wangoni mafiti work."

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Mafiti
Object type
Tobacco tins
Dimensions
Height: 9,5 cm
Width: 4,5 cm
Depth: 4,5 cm
Height: 9 cm
Width: 9 cm
Depth: 6,5 cm
Height: 7 cm
Width: 5 cm
Depth: 4,5 cm
Height: 9,5 cm
Width: 9,5 cm
Depth: 7 cm
Weight: 0,1 kg
Material/Technique
Pumpkin peel, Fur, Leather , Glass bead, Bast
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III E 4440 a-d
Related object(s)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Tanzania
    who
    Wangoni
    Mafiti
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Africa

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