Red leather amulet case with small cloth wrapped tusk attached to by thong

Made:: 1890-1920

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Red leather amulet case with small cloth wrapped tusk attached
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Red leather amulet case with small cloth wrapped tusk attached to by thong, from West Africa, 1890-1920

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A301736

Materials:: leather, ivory, tusk and cloth

type:: amulet case

credit:: Church Missionary Society

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