Context (Production / use)
Catalogue card for Z 28267 A-B: '...cf. spinning tops...Childrens toys?...'.
Event Date
Author: Jane Pettitt

Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card for Z 28267 A-B: '...Cf Nigeria Z 25247 - 25250, Z 25253 - 25257'.
Event Date
Author: Jane Pettitt

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 28267 A-B: '2 wooden snakes with coiled bodies, carved out of light wood, with burnt and incised lines and circles on the body. Through the centre of each is a 3" piece of wood...'.
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Head broken off and missing.
Event Date 14/8/2001
Author: Jane Pettitt

Description (Physical description)
Coiled wooden toy snake. The body features scorched circular indents and grooves, creating triangular panels, some of which contain white pigment. The centre of the snake coil is suspended upon a tapered cylindrical wooden rod. There is evidence of historic damage; the snake head is missing.
Event Date 27/10/2022
Author: Jane Pettitt

Context (Found together / assemblage)
This object may be part of costume Z 13424.1. Wooden carvings with similar decoration were originally attached to the headdress using dowels. Snake imagery is consistent with this masking tradition.
Event Date 27/11/2024
Author: Katrina Dring