tobacco box

Tobacco box made from a bamboo internode with a lid of the same material. The lid and the box each have a band of fine plaited rattan. A cord with a wooden button is inserted through the band on the box and through two holes in small projections curved on top of the outer edge of the lid and through a metal hoop from which it is suspended. The rim of the top of the lid and the base of the box have been blackened. There is a patch of resin on the base of the box. Used. Label: one printed exhibition label.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
0.9
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 5.2756 x 2.4803 in.; 134 x 63 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
bamboo; string; brass; rattan; resin
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
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