Snuff Container
Gallery ID:
Gallery 108 [1]
Collection:
African Art [2]
Artist:
Classification:
Sculpture [4]
Snuff containers made out of a gourd--the hard shell of the fruit of the Oncoba spinosa tree--and decorated with wirework were widespread in southern Africa. The shape and material of gourd snuff containers suggest they would have been made for female users. Like a woman’s womb, the gourd contains and nurtures the seed. Thus, the materials and the forms of snuff containers allude to procreation and fecundity.
Medium:
Credit Line:
accnbr iiii:
200
accnbr yyyy:
2 010
Has cover record?:
No
Museum Collection Highlight?:
no
Object Type:
A
Images:
1800s-1900s [11]
2010.200 [13]
Recently Acquired:
Object ID:
88 723
Sortable Date:
1 800
On loan: