Medicine man's leather amulet and iron rattle
- Made:
- 1880-1910
Medicine man's leather amulet and iron rattle, suspended from leather thong, Africa, 1880-1910
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A20644
- Materials:
- amulet, leather, rattle, iron and cowrie
- Measurements:
-
overall: length 465 mm
rattle: diameter 40 mm
rattle: length 92 mm
amulet: length 73 mm
amulet: width 58 mm
amulet: depth 10 mm
- type:
- medicine man equipment
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)