Carved wooden amulet with herring bone design threaded at top with plaited fibre string
- Made:
- 1880-1920
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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)
