Baked mud lump cylindrical rounded ends

Made:: 1801-1920 in Brazil

SMG00167668
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Baked mud lump cylindrical rounded ends, used to test virginity of girls before marriage, Botucudo tribe, maker, Upper Amazon, Brazil, 1801-1920

Details

Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A300894

Materials:: mud, baked

Measurements:: length 135 mm
diameter 43 mm

type:: virginity testers

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