Snuff Container
1800–1999
- Medium
- Gourd and copper alloy
- Dimensions
- Overall: 7.5 cm (2 15/16 in.)
- Genre
- Vessels
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Africa, Southern Africa, South Africa, Zimbabwe or Mozambique, Northern Nguni-style or Shona-style maker
About
The shape and material of gourd snuff containers—like a woman’s womb, the gourd contains and nurtures the seed—suggest they were made for female users and allude to procreation and fecundity.