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Wooden lip plug, partially covered with zinc, worn by married women of Wakambe or Sara tribes, possibly Kenya or Nile Basin, East Africa, 1880-1910
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A22711
- type:
- lip plugs
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)
