Amuletic fly-whisk, bamboo(?) handle covered in ne

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

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Object Number:: A652454

Materials:: bamboo, ? material, beads, glass, cloth, hair, hair of brown buck

type:: fly-whisk

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