Box, Wood
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Aug 1968
name: label: Donor Name
content: Neville Chittick
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "A & B. Cylindrical wooden box with cover fitting over rim of body. Made on a lathe. Painted in black with incised decoration in two red bands. Used for incense and trinkets. Top broken. Called zikakasi. Reference: Bravmann, Rene´ A. 1983. African Islam. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, Pl. 88, p. 110. Identified there as wood with mangrove stain, Swahili.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jun 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Kenya, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 272775
label: USNM Number
content: E409947-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Box