Wooden stick cut from the branch of a tree

Made:
1890-1925 in Kenya
maker:
Akikuya people
Wooden stick cut from the branch of a tree

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Wooden stick cut from the branch of a tree
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Wooden stick cut from the branch of a tree, used in purificatory rites, part of medicine man's equipment, Akikuya tribe, Kenya, 1890-1925

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A657243
Materials:
wood, branch
type:
wands
credit:
Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett