Objects
Anvil. late 19th c.
Anvil. late 19th c.
Number
МАЭ № 7290-14
Title
Anvil.
Ethnicity
Dan
The Jula
Date
late 19th c.
Collectors-person
Vydrin Valentin
Material
Annotation
Belonged to a blacksmith from the army of Imam Samory Ture. After the French defeated Imam in 1898, the blacksmith escaped and settled in the Santa village, among the Dan people. The anvil was received from his descendants in 2006.
Corpus
Ethnography of Africa