Lidded Tobacco Vessel

Lidded Tobacco Vessel

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Lidded Tobacco Vessel
CultureNguni peoples
Titles
  • Lidded Tobacco Vessel
Datelate 19th century
Made inSouth Africa
MediumWood
Dimensions19 × 8 3/4 × 8 1/4 in. (48.3 × 22.2 × 21 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2016.47.A,.B
Non exposé

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Department
African Art
Object Type
ProvenanceProbably private collection, United Kingdom; [...]; Norman Hurst, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Kevin Conru, Brussels, by 2002; Anna Conru, Brussels; Jacaranda Tribal, New York, 2015; purchased by MFAH, 2016.

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