Pitt Rivers Museum Anthropology and World Archaology

 

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Sudan

 

Collected by Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton

Given to the Museum in 1934

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Headrest, Sudan

In East and West Africa headrests often double up as stools. Amongst the Bari of Sudan, stools and headrests sometimes have a skin-covered compartment used to carry tobacco or small valuables. This stool, known as a shanka, has a compartment apparently designed to carry money.

View database record 1934.8.40