Brass amuletic pendant attached to ring by chain links

Made:: 1880-1920 in Africa

maker:: Ashanti people

Brass amuletic pendant attached to ring by chain links, Ashanti
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Brass amuletic pendant attached to ring by chain links, Ashanti, West Africa, 1880-1920

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A44477

Materials:: brass

Measurements:: overall: height 135 mm
pendant: height 55 mm
pendant: length 10 mm
pendant: thickness 7 mm
ring: diameter 47 mm

type:: pendants

credit:: Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)

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Brass amuletic pendant attached to ring by chain links

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