Snuff container

Museum number:
5-14221
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3650
Description:
Snuff container. Native name: "khromo-tumati" (horn for tobacco). Horn container with leather covering on one end, cork stopper missing. Length 12 centimeters, width 5 centimeters. Cow horn and hide, perhaps made around 1950. Context of use: used mainly by older men to carry snuff. Cork stopper and strap are missing--usually carried by wrapping leather strap around upper arm, shoulder, or neck. Owner did not know how container was made, it belonged to his grandfather (brother of last Iraqw traditional chief. Probably local manufacture.
Donor:
Jean Colvin and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Mbulu District, Tanzania
Verbatim coll. place:
Tanzania; Mbulu district; Iraqw people
Culture or time period:
Iraqw People
Collector:
Jean Colvin
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Snuff containers
Function:
5.5 Stimulants, Narcotics, and Accessories
Accession date:
August 1982
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Snuff container, accession number 5-14221, described as Snuff container. Native name: "khromo-tumati" (horn for tobacco). Horn container with leather covering on one end, cork stopper missing. Length 12 centimeters, width 5 centimeters. Cow horn and hide, perhaps made around 1950. Context of use: used mainly by older men to carry snuff. Cork stopper and strap are missing--usually carried by wrapping leather strap around upper arm, shoulder, or neck. Owner did not know how container was made, it belonged to his grandfather (brother of last Iraqw traditional chief. Probably local manufacture.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Snuff container, accession number 5-14221, described as Snuff container. Native name: "khromo-tumati" (horn for tobacco). Horn container with leather covering on one end, cork stopper missing. Length 12 centimeters, width 5 centimeters. Cow horn and hide, perhaps made around 1950. Context of use: used mainly by older men to carry snuff. Cork stopper and strap are missing--usually carried by wrapping leather strap around upper arm, shoulder, or neck. Owner did not know how container was made, it belonged to his grandfather (brother of last Iraqw traditional chief. Probably local manufacture.

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