Brass clapper bell with steel clapper

Made:: 1880-1910 in Zambia

Brass clapper bell with steel clapper
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Brass clapper bell with steel clapper, attached to piece of animal hide and copper wristband, probably used by medicine man, Barotseland, 1880-1910

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A130156

Materials:: brass, hide and wristband, copper

Measurements:: bell: height 65 mm
bell: diameter 33 mm
wristband: diameter 58 mm
hide, max: length 515 mm
hide: width 430 mm

type:: amulets

credit:: Christol, F.

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