Mandingo
Leather-Covered Container
Mandingo, 1900-1932
Scroll
Mandingo
Leather-Covered Container
Mandingo, 1900-1932
Physical Qualities
Metal and leather, 9 x 7 cm.
Credit Line
Gift of Catherine O'Carroll Bussell and Robert Bruce Bussell, Arlington, Virginia
Object Number
1998.440
Leather-covered metal can with lid; with three checkerboard pattern lines around outside and three checkerboard pattern crossed lines in star shape on top of lid.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1998; collected in Liberia, probably March 23, 1927, as the gift of a Mr. Belton, of Great Britain, 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.
