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Object Number 21-28-50/B2901
Display Title Trade eye medicine cases
Descriptions
Inventory Description Bottles, hide sphere, cylindrical narrow neck, brn/wht hide wrap, 2 bone picks
Classification
  • Bottle
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hausa?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Cameroon
Materials Hide, Bone
Dimensions Overall: 8.9 x 3.2 x 0.3 cm (3 1/2 x 1 1/4 x 1/8 in.)
Quantity 6
Label on object B/2901

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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
Trade eye medicine cases
21-28-50/B2901.1 Trade eye medicine cases
Bottle
Cameroon
Trade eye medicine cases
21-28-50/B2901.2 Trade eye medicine cases
Raw Material
Container
Cameroon
Trade eye medicine cases
21-28-50/B2901.3 Trade eye medicine cases
Raw Material
Container
Cameroon
Trade eye medicine cases
21-28-50/B2901.4 Trade eye medicine cases
Container
Raw Material
Cameroon
Trade eye medicine cases
21-28-50/B2901.5 Trade eye medicine cases
Raw Material
Container
Cameroon
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