Gourd container with fibre stopper

Made:
1860-1900 in Kenya
maker:
Akikuya people
Gourd container with fibre stopper, containing a red powder

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Gourd container with fibre stopper, containing a red powder
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Gourd container with fibre stopper, containing a red powder, part of medicine man's equipment, Akikuya tribe, Kenya, 1860-1900

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A657251
Materials:
gourd and fibre
type:
container
credit:
Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett