Amuletic necklace
- Made:
- 1871-1920
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Amuletic necklace
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Amuletic necklace, twisted fibre decorated with cowrie shells from which is suspended on animal horn with brass studs and coiled strips, Congolese, 1871-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A652404
- Materials:
- cowries, brass and horn, animal
- Measurements:
-
necklace, doubled: length 440 mm
length 200 mm
horn: width 50 mm
