Medicine man's rattle

Made:
1890-1925
Medicine man's rattle

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Medicine man's rattle
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Medicine man's rattle, wooden peg-like handle threaded with string of split seed shells and smaller wooden peg, possibly Congolese, 1890-1925

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A92753
Materials:
wood, seedshell and cord
Measurements:
handle: length 227 mm
rattle: length 172 mm
handle: diameter 19 mm
rattle, approx: width 70 mm
type:
rattle
credit:
Pareyn, H.

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