Iron ore
- Museum number:
- 5-10167a-c
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm210510167a@2dc
- Alternate number:
- B-2975a-c (previous number (Bascom’s number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.2819
- Description:
- iron ore; a) 9 cm. b) 5.5 cm. c) 5 cm.
- Donor:
- Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
- Collection place:
- Oyo, Oyo State, Nigeria
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Africa; Nigeria; Oyo; Yoruba
- Culture or time period:
- Yoruba
- Collector:
- William Russell Bascom
- Collection date:
- 1960
- Materials:
- Iron ore
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 8.3 For Manufacturing
- Accession date:
- 1971
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- a— length 9 centimeters, b— length 5.5 centimeters, and c— length 5 centimeters
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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