Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card notes: "Two horns covered with hide, the wide ends plugged with wood and covered with hide, the small ends fitted with a wooden stopper (missing in the smaller horn). Both fitted with thongs and cords for slinging."

Event Date 8/6/2000
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Large hole in leather of larger horn and leather disc becoming unstitched at end.
Event Date 24/8/2001
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card reads, in black ink: "39.179 | Benin / Two horns covered with hide, the wide ends plugged with wood & covered with hide, the small ends fitted with a wooden stopped (missing in the smaller horn). Both fitted with thongs & cords for slinging. / d.d W.W. Collins"

Red circular sticker on bottom right of the card.
Event Date 20/8/2020
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Amendments / updates)
Given the uncertainty of the place of collection, Ghana and Benin City have been added to the place field with queries, as have Edo and Asante in the cultural group field
Event Date 15/10/2021
Author: rachel hand

Context (Production / use)
Possibly used as powder horn
Event Date 15/10/2021
Author: rachel hand

Description (Labels & Markings)
Accession number marked in black ink, '39.179'
Event Date 30/6/2021
Author: Benjamina Dadzie

Context (Acquisition Details)
Noted by the donor William Wiehé Collins, as belonging to the wife of his late brother, Mr Francis Collins, which had been collected by her first husband, who had served in the Benin Expedition. Mrs Francis Collins married in 1896, a year before the Benin Expedition, and there is no record of her being married before. The majority of the objects, initially accessioned as coming from Benin City, have been later identified as Asante.

It is likely, therefore, that Captain Jackson served in one of the Expeditionary Forces of the Anglo-Ashanti wars.
Event Date 23/2/2024
Author: Benjamina Dadzie

Description (Physical description)
Hide covered gunpowder flask, probably made of a cow horn, but lacking the original wooden stopper. The wide end is plugged with wood and covered with hide. Remains of hide carry straps with a replacement cord of blue cotton multiply plait, probably of European manufacture, tied around the horn and strung through a hide loop. This cord may be later museum addition for display as it is short and loosely knotted
Event Date 23/2/2024
Author: Benjamina Dadzie