String bag with cloth lining
- Made:
- 1871-1920 in Democratic Republic of Congo
String bag with cloth lining, containing snakes’ heads, bones, teeth, skin and unknown animal claws, by the Mangbetu tribe, North East Congo, 1871-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A63314
- Materials:
- string, cloth, shell, bone and skin (untanned)
- Measurements:
-
height 290 mm
diameter 89 mm
- type:
- medicine pouch and animal remains
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)
