Amuletic pendant of wooden cylinders and blocks stung on thong

Made:: 1880-1920 in Swaziland

Amuletic pendant of wooden cylinders and blocks stung on thong
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Amuletic pendant of wooden cylinders and blocks stung on thong, Ama Swazi tribe, Swaziland, South Africa

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A45499

Materials:: wood and hide

Measurements:: length 157 mm
including short strip of thong: width 134 mm
depth 30 mm

type:: pendants

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Amuletic pendant of wooden cylinders and blocks stung on thong

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