Medicine mans necklace

Made:: 1880-1930

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Medicine mans necklace, hide band threaded with wooden pegs
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Medicine mans necklace, hide band threaded with wooden pegs, small leather cases, bone joints, roots and seeds, African, 1880-1930

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A132665

Materials:: hide, wood, bone, root and seed

type:: necklace and amulet

credit:: Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)

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