Plaited leather necklace with three crocodile skin cases threaded through cord

Made:
1871-1879
Plaited leather necklace with three crocodile skin cases Plaited leather necklace with three crocodile skin cases

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Plaited leather necklace with three crocodile skin cases
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Plaited leather necklace with three crocodile skin cases
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London

Plaited leather necklace with three crocodile skin cases threaded through cord, taken from a dead chief after storming Beda during the Niger Expedition, 1879, Nigerian, 1871-1879

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A651096
Materials:
leather and crocodile
type:
necklace