Amuletic necklace of lions and leopard's teeth(26)
- Made:
- 1880-1920 in South Africa
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Amuletic necklace of lions and leopard's teeth(26)
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Amuletic necklace of lions and leopard's teeth(26), suspended in groups of two and three from a multi-strand loop of fine black beeds, supposed to be a Moirosi war collar taken at the capture of Moirosi's Mountain, South Africa, 1880-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A7840
- Materials:
- teeth, leopard and lion, beads, glass and fibre
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)
