Two iron loops suspended from short rod curled at ends
- Made:
- 1890-1930
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Two iron loops suspended from short rod curled at ends, resembles a minature thumbscrew but is in fact an amulet, vernacula "Iga" for tying round babies arms, Akwna(?), Southern Nigeria, 1890-1930
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A135299
- Materials:
- iron
- type:
- amulet
- credit:
- Yeatman
