Medicine man's equipment

Made:: 1880-1920

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Medicine man's equipment
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Medicine man's equipment, lump of "medicine" tightly covered with stitched leather and suspended from leather thong, West Africa, 1880-1920

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A174912

Materials:: leather and iron

type:: medicine man equipment

credit:: Sotheby's

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