Object number
1923.2.6
Creator
Description
Rectangular bag made from strips of light and dark coloured leather woven simply together to form a chess board effect. Leather straps and tassels at each corner and in the middle of the bottom edge. The register states the object is Hausa leatherwork from Nigeria, but probably collected in Asante Region (Ghana). Collection of Capt Robert Powley Wild.
Production place
Ghana
Date
1900 - 1922
Production period
20th century
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Inscription
Hausa leather, Nigeria, Robert P. Wild, Obuasi, Ashanti, August 1922
