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Animal tail amulet used as "medicine" by medicine man, Barotse tribe, Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia, 1880-1930
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A658241
- Materials:
- skin, animal and hair, animal
- type:
- amulets
- credit:
- Christol, F.
