Ethnographic object
- maker:
- African people
Long iron spike or bayonet riveted to an animal horn, like from the Taurotragus genus, fitted at end with human lower mandible, hollow of horn filled with grasses, African, 1880-1915
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A11363
- Materials:
- iron, horn, rhino., bone, human mandible and grass
- Measurements:
-
length 990 mm
spike: length 520 mm
horn, approximately: diameter 90 mm
- type:
- human remains, bone and bayonet
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust
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