7 wooden sticks used as smallpox juju

Made:
1920-1946 in Nigeria
maker:
Yoruba people
7 wooden sticks used as smallpox juju, Yoruba, Nigeria, c. 1940

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7 wooden sticks used as smallpox juju, Yoruba, Nigeria, c. 1940
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7 wooden sticks used as smallpox juju, Yoruba, Nigeria, c. 1940

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Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A631399
Materials:
wood
type:
jujus
credit:
Johnson, C.G.