Amuletic horns
- Made:
- 1880-1920
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Amuletic horns, teeth, beads, bean and bones strung on a length of twisted fibre, worn as a necklace, South African, 1880-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A652446
- Measurements:
-
necklace, doubled: length 290 mm
tooth, largest: length 105 mm
seedshell: diameter 55 mm
- type:
- amulet
