Medicine man's snakeskin and iron implement

Made:: 1871-1930

Medicine man's snakeskin and iron implement
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Medicine man's snakeskin and iron implement, thick necklace with two amulets attached, taken from a "witch doctor" when on trial for West African (?) 1871-1930

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A160607

Materials:: snakeskin, iron and leather

Measurements:: length 515 mm
ring, max: diameter 48 mm

type:: medicine man equipment

credit:: Sothebys

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