Shallow carved wooden bowl with depression in centre

Made:
1880-1920

Shallow carved wooden bowl with depression in centre, shaped like truncated ovoid on three legs, badly damaged by termites(?), possibly fourth leg missing, said to be magical object, from East Africa, 1880-1920

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A233899
Materials:
wood
type:
bowls