Kohl-container; Stopper

1930s-1940s

Middle East, Yemen, Hadramout

Description: T-shaped kohl-container (A) made of leather (?) and metal covered in cotton. With a stopper (B). Decorated with coloured glass beads and cowrie shells.

Acquisition notes: This object is part of a large collection of items donated by Leila Ingrams in 2012 (2012,6030.1ff). Some were collected by her parents, Doreen and Harold Ingrams, between the 1920s-40s and others by Leila herself from the 1980s-2005 on the island of Zanzibar and in Hadramawt, Yemen.

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