Amuletic horn bound with fibre and ornamented with cowrie shells

Made:: 1890-1930 in Kinshasa

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Amuletic horn bound with fibre and ornamented with cowrie
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Amuletic horn bound with fibre and ornamented with cowrie shells, used by medicine man of Azande, Belgian Congo, 1890-1930

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A220877

Materials:: horn, fibre, cord and cowrie

type:: amulet

credit:: Glendining

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Amuletic horn bound with fibre and ornamented with cowrie shells

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