Box (Primary Title)

Unknown (Artist)

19th–20th century
Swahili
Containers-Boxes
Lacquerware
wood, lacquer
Place Made,Kenya
Overall: 4 3/8 × 3 5/8 in. dia. (11.11 × 9.21 cm)
2003.173a-b
Gift of Robert and Nancy Nooter
2017-2019: "World on the Horizon: Swahili Arts Across the Indian Ocean", Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, August 25, 2017 - March 24, 2018; National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, May 9 - September 2, 2018; Fowler Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles, October 21, 2018 - February 10, 2019
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