Medicine bundle or amuletic bag
- Made:
- 1880-1920
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Medicine bundle or amuletic bag, net covered cloth bag filled with rubble, horn suspended from bottom with monkey's paw and concretion,Western Congo, 1880-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A34713
- Materials:
- cloth, cord, horn, resin, ? material, cowries and bone, monkey's paw
- type:
- amulet case
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)
