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 tribe 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
- type:
- corrobboree wand
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust
