Carved wooden horn covered with lizard skin

Made:
1870-1920
Carved wooden horn covered with lizard skin, used by a beggar

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Carved wooden horn covered with lizard skin, used by a beggar
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Carved wooden horn covered with lizard skin, used by a beggar, from Ahwaz, Iran, 1870-1920

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A193104
Materials:
horn, skin, lizard and iron
type:
amulet and horn
credit:
Tunbridge Wells Municipal Museum