Amuletic Circlet

Amuletic circlet

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Amuletic circlet
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Amuletic circlet, leather thong threaded with curved wooden pegs of ruinous shapes and sizes, Ubangi tribe, Congo, 1880-1920

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Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A92757
Materials:
leather, wood and bark
Measurements:
circlet, doubled: length 210 mm
pegs, max: length 175 mm
bark thong: length 360 mm
type:
amulet and circlet