PUBLISHED ZULU SNUFF CONTAINER SOUTH AFRICA animal horn, wood and brass, carved and polished in the natural form of a horn, with a ring collar below the upper end, the wooden cover secured with brass tacks, with collection label "135" (21.8cm long) Footnote: Provenance: Kevin Conru, Brussels Bernice and Terence Pethica Collection, United Kingdom, colllection number 135 Published: Klopper, Nettleton and Pethica, 2007. The Art of Southern Africa: The Terence Pethica Collection , n° 40. Note: "Horn snuff containers which retain the original shape of the animal horn are best documented amoungst the South Sotho and Tswana speaking peoples. Often the upper, sharp end of the container was carved to form an animals head, but this one has a ****** polygonal rim around its aperture. The fixing of the bottom cover with metal tacks appears to mimic the arrangement on European powder horns, themselves signs of power." Klopper, Nettleton and Pethica, 2007.