Box: Wood With Cover
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Aug 1968
name: label: Donor Name
content: Neville Chittick
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "A & B. Squatty globular wooden box with top which fits over neck of body. Painted in horizontal bands of black, red, and yellow. Made on a lathe. Used for incense or trinkets. (Both parts cracked.) Called zikakasi. Said to be introduced from India." Reference: Bravmann, Rene´ A. 1983. African Islam. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, Pl. 91, p. 112. Identified there as a small lathe-turned lidded bowl ... stained with mangrove dyes and delicately incised; Swahili.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
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: E409945-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Box