Corrobboree wand or "yai-iua", long roll made by strands and folds of dried grass and paper bark tightly bound together with hair string, coated with lime and surmounted by tuff of feathers, for healing backache, Kakadu people, N. Australia, 1880-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A73305
- Materials:
- grass, bark, string, hair, lime, feathers and card, display board
- Measurements:
-
length 470 mm
approximately: diameter 50 mm
board: length 527 mm
board: width 185 mm
- type:
- corrobboree wand
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust
