Part of leather pouch with compartments covered in red fabric

Made:: 1880-1920 in Sudan

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Part of leather pouch with compartments covered in red fabric
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Part of leather pouch with compartments covered in red fabric, medicine man's outfit, worn attached to a belt, Sudan(?), 1880-1920

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A52028

Materials:: leather and fabric

type:: pouches

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Part of leather pouch with compartments covered in red fabric

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