Length of bent cane swallowed
- Made:
- 1891-1925
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Length of bent cane swallowed, in ritual, to prevent disease or to produce vomiting after fasting, from Bena Bena tributary, New Guinea, 1891-1925
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A240724
- Materials:
- cane
- type:
- swallowing canes
- credit:
- Chinnery, E.W.P.
