Beaded Snuff Box

Unidentified Zulu maker

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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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