Amulet made from strands of cowrie shell threaded on leather with pendant beans

Made:: 1851-1900

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Amulet made from strands of cowrie shell threaded on leather
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Amulet made from strands of cowrie shell threaded on leather with pendant beans, associated probably with Eshu or Elegbara, West African, 2nd half of 19th century

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A151494

Materials:: cowrie, leather and beans

type:: amulet

credit:: Glendining

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