Model of a cupping vessel

Made:
1880-1920 in Kinshasa
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Model of a cupping vessel
Science Museum Group
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Model of a cupping vessel
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London

Model of a cupping vessel
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London

Model of a cupping vessel, evidently a wooden imitation of a gourd vessel, spherical bulb, curved tubular neck, thought to produce same effect as cupping, Bushango tribe, Congo, 1880-1920

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A657979
Materials:
wood
type:
cupping vessel