Amuletic bundle, beaded tassels and nut shells

Made:
1880-1900
Amuletic bundle, beaded tassels terminating in empty nut shells Amuletic bundle, beaded tassels terminating in empty nut shells

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Amuletic bundle, beaded tassels terminating in empty nut shells
Science Museum Group
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Amuletic bundle, beaded tassels terminating in empty nut shells
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Amuletic bundle, beaded tassels terminating in empty nut shells, also attached to brass rings is a small glass bottle, African(?), 1880-1910

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A300560
Materials:
glass, beads, string, shell, nut, brass and bottle, glass
Measurements:
overall: 23 mm x 160 mm x 165 mm, .078 kg
type:
amulet