Mandingo
Leather-Covered Bottle
Mandingo, 1900-1932
Scroll
Mandingo
Leather-Covered Bottle
Mandingo, 1900-1932
Physical Qualities
Glass and leather, 19.7 x 12 x 11.5 cm.
Credit Line
Gift of Catherine O'Carroll Bussell and Robert Bruce Bussell, Arlington, Virginia
Object Number
1998.438
Leather-covered John Haig whiskey bottle with three concave sides, each with a round hole in the leather fringed in a checkerboard-pattern circle; with a line of step fret patterns around the bottom and around the shoulder.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1998; collected in Liberia between 1923-1929 by the parents of donor (Bruce Bussell): Conrad Turner Bussell and Pauline Bussell. Mr. Bussell was sent by the U.S. Government under President Calvin Coolidge to survey the boundaries of Liberia. He was, instead, made Supervisor of Customs by President Charles Dunbar Burgess King of Liberia, and later made Financial Advisor to President King. Mrs. Bussell arrived in 1926.
