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LicenseIvory, shuttle shaped ear lobe distender, worn by warriors only
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© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Ivory, shuttle shaped ear lobe distender, worn by warriors only
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Ivory, shuttle shaped ear lobe distender, worn by warriors only, Masai, East Africa, 1880-1910
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A19121
- Materials:
- ivory
- Measurements:
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length 116 mm
width 21 mm
approximately: thickness 20 mm
- type:
- ear-distender
- credit:
- Knight, Frank and Rutley