Amuletic fly-whisk
- Made:
- 1880-1920
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Amuletic fly-whisk, bamboo(?) handle covered in network of white beads, whisk is a taft of light brown animal hair, Gandan or Nyoro tribe, Uganda, 1880-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A652454
- Materials:
- bamboo, ? material, cloth, beads, glass and hair, hair of brown buck
- Measurements:
-
overall: length 440 mm
handle: length 275 mm
handle: diameter 31 mm
