This snuff container has a label attached, inscribed 'Amashungu. 2. Snuff boxes Maritzburg July 8. [18]90' and 'A Burney'. For other snuff containers collected by Burney, see M Stevenson and M Graham- Stewart (eds), South-east African beadwork, Cape Town, 2000, pp105-6, nos 85 and 91; this example is illustrated as no 89.