POWDER FLASKS FOR ID AND COMMENT

colin henshaw · 1st June 2016, 09:05 AM

I think these are of the same "made for sale " genre as other similarly constructed and decorated artefacts from West Africa, as discussed elsewhere on the forum. (spears, knives, covered tins etc). I believe they mainly emanate from the Sierra Leone area. Its possible the first horn shown once had a strip of leopard skin round the centre section ?

However, they can be of relatively early dates and might well have evolved from traditional forms.

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1st June 2016, 09:05 AM	#6
colin henshaw Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 1,429	I think these are of the same "made for sale " genre as other similarly constructed and decorated artefacts from West Africa, as discussed elsewhere on the forum. (spears, knives, covered tins etc). I believe they mainly emanate from the Sierra Leone area. Its possible the first horn shown once had a strip of leopard skin round the centre section ? However, they can be of relatively early dates and might well have evolved from traditional forms.