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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
- type:
- virginity testers
