Medicine man's circlet of hide and wood decorated with beads and cowrie shell

Made:: 1880-1920

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Medicine man's circlet of hide and wood decorated with beads
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Medicine man's circlet of hide and wood decorated with beads
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Medicine man's circlet of hide and wood decorated with beads and cowrie shell. West Africa, 1880-1920

Details

Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A301663

Materials:: hide, wood, shell and glass

Measurements:: overall: 44 mm x 193 mm x 198 mm, .145 kg

type:: circlet and medicine man costume

credit:: Christian Missionary Society

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