Carved wooden anthropomorphic head and shoulders with horns

Made:
1830-1925 in Nigeria
Carved wooden anthropomorphic head and shoulders with horns

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Carved wooden anthropomorphic head and shoulders with horns
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Carved wooden anthropomorphic head and shoulders with horns, one broken, very worn, used by medicine-men of southern Nigeria, Ibo, 1830-1925

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A200361
type:
statues
credit:
Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)