Birds head band with string and set in a lump of grey clay

Made:
1880-1920
Birds head band with string and set in a lump of grey clay

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Birds head band with string and set in a lump of grey clay
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Birds head band with string and set in a lump of grey clay, part of medicine man's apparatus, West Africa, 1880-1920

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A174911
Materials:
bone, fibre and clay
type:
amulet
credit:
Sotheby's