Beaded Snuff Box
Unidentified Zulu maker
collected before 1885
Wood and beads
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Reverend Josiah Tyler
13.25.864
Geography
Place Made: South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
Period
19th century
Object Name
Personal Gear
Research Area
Africa
Not on view
Publication History
Barbara Thompson, "The African Collection at the Hood Museum of Art," African Arts, Volume XXXVII, No. 2, Los Angeles: African Studies Center, University of California, 2004, ill. p. 16.
Provenance
Collected by Reverend Josiah Tyler (1823-1895), D. D., Missionary to the American Board, Natal, South Africa; given to present collection, 1885.
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