This beer skimmer has the remains of a late nineteenth-century label, which suggests that it was taken to Europe by missionaries or early ethnographers and included in one of the periodic ethnographic and colonial displays.

For other examples, see Zulu treasures, Durban, 1996, p142, G29-G31; EM Shaw and NJ van Warmelo, 'Material culture of Cape Nguni', Annals of SA Museum, 58(3), 1972, p431.