Tobacco box
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
Unknown
Materials
Copper, Glass, Leather, Wood
Measurements
50 mm (Length)35 mm (W)
Place of origin
Sonhor
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1304012
Summary
A tobacco box with single copper chain. The lidded cylindrical box is made from cow's horn decorated with glass beads. Collected Songhor, Kenya 1933. Lord Egerton number 291E. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.
Provenance
Collected by Lord Egerton in Songhor, Kenya, 1933