"Snuff-bottle made of carved horn, in the form of a bearded male figure depicted in relief, with narrow arms and legs, and with a bulbous head in the top of which is the aperture for the snuff." Measures: 12cm (H) x 4.3cm (W) x 4.2cm (D) [Measurements taken from the British Museum online collections database]

"Register addition "South Africa".

Three horn and ivory snuffboxes

Artist names unrecorded, late 1800s

The two dark horn boxes are carved as

a man and a cow – their South Sotho

name, koma, means both penis and

snuffbox. Tswana-speaking artists

made similar snuffboxes from ivory.

Recorded as South Sotho and Tswana, British Museum