Pigment
- Museum number:
- 5-16767a,b
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm210516767a@2cb
- Alternate number:
- 516756
- Accession number:
- Acc.4739
- Description:
- camwood pigment samples (2 pieces). red-brown lumps of pigment, each cylindrical with a broken end and a rounded end.
- Donor:
- Berta Bascom
- Collection place:
- Western Africa
- Verbatim coll. place:
- W. Africa
- Collector:
- Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Painting supplies
- Accession date:
- June 23, 2004
- Context of use:
- Decoration
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- min— length 4 centimeters, min— diameter 2.5 centimeters, max— diameter 3.5 centimeters, and max— length 5.7 centimeters
- Images:
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