Model of hut or shelter
- Made:
- 1900-1935 in Democratic Republic of Congo
Model of hut or shelter, made from twigs and grasses, now in pieces with two painted cherrywood posts for support, also a yellow and red painted clay pot, with displayed frame of iron and wood, placed near patient to cure sleeping sickness, Bokoli tribe, Congo, 1900-1935
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A657222
- Materials:
- shelter, wood, twigs, shelter, grass, post, cherry, pot, clay, fired, frame, iron and frame, wood
- type:
- huts
- credit:
- Jeffreys, M.D.W.
