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LicenseStitched leather amulet the shape of a saveloy or black sausage
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Stitched leather amulet the shape of a saveloy or black sausage
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Stitched leather amulet the shape of a saveloy or black sausage with small leather amulet cases attached to sides, plaited leather looped handle of top, black mane of hair projecting from end, Hausa tribe, Northern Nigeria, 1880-1910
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A160495
- Materials:
- leather, cloth, iron and hair, animal
- type:
- amulets
- credit:
- Sothebys
