Upper part of Toucan's beak
- Made:
- 1800-1918 in South America
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Upper part of Toucan's beak, amuletic, pierced for suspension, from Brazil or Central America, 1800-1918
This pierced toucan beak (A670018), described as Brazilian or Central American, was purchased alongside a long lock of hair decorated with beetles' wing-sheaths on behalf of Henry Wellcome’s Historical Medical Museum from a London auction house in 1919.
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A670018
- Materials:
- horn
- Measurements:
-
length 93 mm
width 17 mm
depth 38 mm
- type:
- beak
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)