Animal hair fly-whisk in leather handle with looped leather sling and horn medicine phial attached
- Made:
- 1880-1925
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Animal hair fly-whisk in leather handle with looped leather sling and horn medicine phial attached, small beads wrapped round handles, Nigerian, 1880-1925
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A117959
- Materials:
- hair, animal, leather, beads, glass, horn and wood
- Measurements:
-
with sling: length 515 mm
approx.: diameter 90 mm
- type:
- fly-whisk
- credit:
- Glendining
