Part of leather pouch with compartments covered in red fabric

Made:
1880-1920 in Sudan
Part of leather pouch with compartments covered in red fabric Part of leather pouch with compartments covered in red fabric
Part of leather pouch with compartments covered in red fabric Part of leather pouch with compartments covered in red fabric

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Part of leather pouch with compartments covered in red fabric
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

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

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A52028
Materials:
leather and fabric
Measurements:
length 178 mm
height 125 mm
approx: width 26 mm
type:
pouches

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