L-shaped resenious concretion with single white cowrie shell embedded in base
- Made:
- 1880-1930
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L-shaped resenious concretion with single white cowrie shell embedded in base, hollow in long arm, filled with straw bound with grass rope, Equatorial Africa, 1880-1930
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A657370
- Materials:
- resinous concretion, cowrie, straw and rope, grass
- type:
- amulet
- credit:
- Glendining
