Medicine man's gourd in leather sheath with contents

Made:: 1880-1920

Medicine man's gourd in leather sheath with contents
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Medicine man's gourd in leather sheath with contents, West African, 1880-1920

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A152515

Materials:: gourd

Measurements:: length 115 mm
maximum: width 50 mm
length 201 mm
top, maximum: width 54 mm

type:: gourds

credit:: Robinson, Fisher and Harding

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