Snake fang (resembles animal tooth though)

Made:
1880-1930
Snake fang (resembles animal tooth though)

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Snake fang (resembles animal tooth though)
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Snake fang (resembles animal tooth though), vernacular `Dufr el-ta'-ban, amuletic cure for poisoning of food by a snake, obtained from the zoo at Gizeh, Egyptian, 1880-1930

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A659149
Materials:
fang
type:
snake fangs
credit:
Blackman