Amulet in the form of a face, carved from a fruit stone

Made:: Democratic Republic of Congo

Amulet, in the form of a face carved out of a fruit stone

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Amulet, in the form of a face carved out of a fruit stone
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Amulet, in the form of a face carved out of a fruit stone, by the Bushongo tribe, Zaire

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A89770

type:: amulet

credit:: Pareyn, H.

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