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Yoruba twin figure
Description:
Ere Ibeji Figures from the Yoruba people of south-west Nigeria.
Creator: Yoruba
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:E 5457, 5458
Hoe from Igbo people of Nigeria
Description:
Hoe from the Igbo people of Nigeria, collected in Onitsha. Farmers use simple iron and wood hand tools.
Creator: Igbo
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:E 4298
Edan figure
Description:
Edan Figure of the Ogboni Society from the Yoruba people of Nigeria. Edan figures are symbols of authority.
Creator: Yoruba
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:E 1429
Sword and sheath
Description:
Sword and sheath from the Asante people of the Gold Coast (Ghana). Iron sword, wooden scabbard decorated with shells.
Creator: Asante
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:Ea 1224
Cowrie shell belt
Description:
Cowrie shell belt, Congo. Cowrie shells were used in Africa as money and to show wealth.
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:E 1545
European trading forts in West Africa chart
Description:
Detail from a map, Africa with all its States, Kingdoms, Regions, Islands, based on d Anvilles map. This detail shows a chart of the European trading forts on the Gold Coast, an area of West Africa. Trading forts were built and maintained by different European countries. They were used as bases for the European traders, who could house enslaved Africans there until they were loaded onto the waiting ships anchored nearby.
Date: 1794
Copyright: Copyright Bristol University
Meleguetta pepper
Description:
Guinea grains, Afromomum meleguetta. Meleguetta pepper was a kind of pepper from what was known as the Grain Coast of West Africa. It was imported into Britain in large quantities in the 17th and early 18th century.
Creator: David Emeney
Date: 2003
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Snuff box and rasps
Description:
Tortoiseshell and gold snuff box (c. 1730) and rasps, late 18th/early 19th century. Snuff is a form of tobacco. It could be grated on a rasp for fresh powder. The rasps here are made of ivory from Africa.
Date: Box (c. 1730), rasps late (c. 18th/ early c. 19th)
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:Na 1887, L 157, L 158
Detail from painting View of the Avon
Description:
Detail from painting View of the Avon, by Samual Jackson showing turtles being unloaded from a small rowing boat. The rowing boat is being used to unload a ship on the River Avon near Bristol. Turtles were used as weights to help balance the ships. Then they would be sold and used for their meat or precious shell.
Creator: Samual Jackson
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:K4
Sale by Auction of Jamaica mahogany
Description:
Advertisement by Richard Meyler for a sale by auction of Jamaica mahogany, from Felix Farleys Bristol Journal, 15th May, 1752. Mahogany was a wood imported from the Caribbean. It was used for doors, furniture, floors and small items.
Creator: Richard Meyler
Date: 15th May 1752
Copyright: Copyright BCC Library Service
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