Button shaped amulet of leather

Made:: 1880-1920 in Senegal

Button shaped amulet of leather, Sarakolle tribe, West Africa
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Button shaped amulet of leather, Sarakolle tribe, West Africa, 1880-1920

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A232127

Materials:: leather

Measurements:: diameter 54 mm
depth 20 mm

type:: amulet

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Button shaped amulet of leather

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