Pigment
- Museum number:
- 5-16767a
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm2105016767a
- Alternate number:
- 516756 and 5-16767a,b
- Description:
- camwood pigment samples (2 pieces). red-brown lumps of pigment, each cylindrical with a broken end and a rounded end.
- Collection place:
- Western Africa
- Verbatim coll. place:
- W. Africa
- Collector:
- Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Painting supplies
- Function:
- 8.3 For Manufacturing
- Context of use:
- Decoration
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)