Fly whisk with red, white and blue glass beads with ring of cowrie shells and tuft of brown hair one end and single cowrie shell at base. possibly used as amulet from Uganda, 1851-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A301571
- Materials:
- cloth, hessian, beads, glass, hair, skin and shell, cowrie
- type:
- fly-whisk