Object Number | 2003-70-31 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Nigeria |
Section | African |
Materials | Bone |
Technique | Incised |
Description | Long thin bone writing tool with point, probably where it is dipped in ink. Top has incised carvings. Bone writing styles used by the Hausa Natives of Northern Nigeria. |
Length | 17 cm |
Width | 2 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
Other Number | 1993.X.1247 - Other Number |
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