Twisted stick

Made:: 1870-1920

Twisted stick, with one end carved possibly to resemble phallus
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Twisted stick, with one end carved possibly to resemble phallus, from Central Australia, 1870-1920

Details

Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A157951

Materials:: wood

Measurements:: length 180 mm
width 128 mm

type:: sticks

credit:: Glendining

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