Carved wooden amulet with herring bone design threaded at top with plaited fibre string

Made:
1880-1920
Carved wooden amulet with herring bone design threaded at top

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Carved wooden amulet with herring bone design threaded at top
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Carved wooden amulet with herring bone design threaded at top with plaited fibre string, glass beads and two flat brass pendants, African, 1880-1920

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A34204
Materials:
wood, cloth, fibre, decoration, glass, beads and decoration, brass
type:
amulet
credit:
Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)