Human lower jaw-bone
- Made:
- 1850-1900 in New Britain
Human lower jaw-bone, amuletic, decorated with wickerwork called "pus pus", associated with ancestor worship, from Lonti tribe, New Britain, 1850-1900
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A127439
- Materials:
- bone, cane, wickerwork "pus-pus" and cloth
- Measurements:
-
length 143 mm
width 101 mm
thickness 73 mm
- type:
- human remains and mandibles
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust
