Leather covered

Made:: 1880-1930 in Senegal

Leather covered, button shaped amulet, Sarakolle, Senegal
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© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Leather covered, button shaped amulet, Sarakolle, Senegal, West Africa, 1880-1930

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A232126

Materials:: leather

Measurements:: diameter 49 mm
maximum, approx: height 10 mm

type:: amulet

credit:: Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)

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