Matchbox, safety containing medicine man's "medicine"

Made:
1898-1928
Matchbox, safety containing medicine man's medicine'

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Matchbox, safety containing medicine man's medicine'
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Matchbox, safety containing medicine man's "medicine", length of cotton, nail, furry seeds, piece of fur, from near Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia, 1898-1928

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A87561
Materials:
boxwood and paper
Measurements:
length 58 mm
width 37 mm
height 17 mm
type:
match boxes
credit:
Clarke, S.

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