Cloth bag with protruding tail filled with horns and pieces of wood

Made:
1880-1920

Cloth bag with protruding tail filled with horns and pieces of wood, shell tied to bag with string used by medicine man, Sudan, Africa, 1880-1920

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A652475
Materials:
horsehair, antelope horn and shell
type:
medicine man's outfits
credit:
Anderson, C L