Amuletic necklace of blue glass beads interspersed with fang-shaped pendants in metal
- Made:
- 1880-1930
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Amuletic necklace of blue glass beads interspersed with fang-shaped pendants in metal, and real fangs, from Liberia, 1880-1930
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A116482
- Materials:
- brass, iron and ivory, teeth
- Measurements:
-
necklace: length 378 mm
max. pendant: length 80 mm
min. pendant: length 60 mm
- credit:
- Foster
