Carved wooden amulet
- Made:
- 1880-1920 in Democratic Republic of Congo
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Carved wooden amulet, bottle-shaped, worn by medicine man, supposed to have purgative properties, Congolese, Africa, 1880-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A652432
- type:
- amulet
