Candle
- Museum number:
- 5-16502b
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm2105016502b
- Description:
- candle holder (a), four candles (b-e), carved wood (?), wax coated then embossed with gold foil (both candle sticks and candles). Double animal motif (posssibly giraffe) standing on a black rectangular base.
- Collection place:
- Western Africa
- Verbatim coll. place:
- West Africa, Mali/ Ghana/Senegal, Bambara
- Culture or time period:
- Bambara
- Collector:
- Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
- Materials:
- Gold (metal) and Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Candles
- Function:
- 4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)