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LicensePieces of root which are chewed as an expectorant
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Pieces of root which are chewed as an expectorant, made into necklace with beads strung on cotton thread, Kaffir tribe, Tembuland, South Africa, 1880-1900
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A652453
- Materials:
- beads, glass, roots and cotton
- Measurements:
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length 325 mm
maximum: width 14 mm
maximum: depth 10 mm
- type:
- necklace
- credit:
- Cassidy, C.G.
