Amulet, consisting of string with threaded objects such as beads
- Made:
- 1870-1920
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Amulet, consisting of string with threaded objects such as beads, teeth, bone, seed pods, from Dahomey, West African, 1870-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A232044
- Materials:
- bone, teeth, brass, ? material, iron, seed pods, beads, glass and nut
- Measurements:
-
maximum: length 160 mm
maximum: width 105 mm
- type:
- amulet
