Container

Museum number:
5-4307a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21054307a@2cb
Alternate number:
71 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.2037
Description:
a) Tobacco Container (Durum Tapa) of ox horn with cowhide overlay at base; length 20 cm; b) Guinea corn plug; height 4.5 cm. Made and used by old men daily to hold snuffing tobacco; durum tapa= "corn tobacco" by 1964 often replaced by glass or plastic containers. Collected 8/2/1964.
Donor:
Paul Hinderling and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Mokolo, North Region, Cameroon
Verbatim coll. place:
N. Cameroon; Mokolo; Mafa tribe (Murdock's 13:39 Mofu [Muffo])
Culture or time period:
Mafa tribe
Collector:
Paul Hinderling
Collection date:
8/2/1964
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Containers (receptacles)
Function:
5.5 Stimulants, Narcotics, and Accessories
Accession date:
1965
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Container, accession number 5-4307a,b, described as a) Tobacco Container (Durum Tapa) of ox horn with cowhide overlay at base; length 20 cm; b) Guinea corn plug; height 4.5 cm. Made and used by old men daily to hold snuffing tobacco; durum tapa= "corn tobacco" by 1964 often replaced by glass or plastic containers. Collected 8/2/1964.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Container, accession number 5-4307a,b, described as a) Tobacco Container (Durum Tapa) of ox horn with cowhide overlay at base; length 20 cm; b) Guinea corn plug; height 4.5 cm. Made and used by old men daily to hold snuffing tobacco; durum tapa= "corn tobacco" by 1964 often replaced by glass or plastic containers. Collected 8/2/1964.

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