Amuletic bracelet made from twisted wire and beads
- Made:
- 1880-1925 in South Africa
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Amuletic bracelet of twisted wire and blue and brown beads
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Amuletic bracelet of twisted wire and blue and brown beads, said to bring luck and ward of rheumatism, South African, 1880-1925
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A160806
- Materials:
- iron, wire and beads, glass
- Measurements:
-
overall: 6 mm x 77 mm x 73 mm, .01 kg
- type:
- bracelet - jewelry
- credit:
- Sothebys
