Cloth bag with protruding tail filled with horns and pieces of wood, shell tied to bag with string used by medicine man, Sudan, Africa, 1880-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A652475
- Materials:
- horsehair, antelope horn and shell
- Measurements:
-
approximate: length 580 mm
maximum width - curve of tail: width 300 mm
depth 112 mm
- type:
- medicine man's outfits
- credit:
- Anderson, C L
