Medicine man's bag, containing various gourds, horns, stones, rattle, knife, sticks etc., Congolese, 1880-1920
- Made:
- 1880-1920
Woven fibre medicine man's bag, soft, with rounded base, cord handles woven into rim, containing various gourds, horns, stones, rattle, knife, sticks etc., Congolese, 1880-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A657302
- type:
- medicine man's outfits
- credit:
- de Mery, D.
Parts
Steel machette, wooden handle secured with cane twine, flat double cutting edge blade
Five horns, two contain twigs and cloth
Double gourd snuff box, fibre hanging loop
Double headed gourd snuff box, contains fibre, elephant hair etc.
Glass bead necklace threaded on plaited fibre
Incomplete string of beads, assumed from necklace
Hinged gourd container, crocodile skin cord hanging loop
Lump of copal resin, translucent gum from tropical trees, plus thirty smaller lumps
Wooden sticks, medicinal, five tightly bound bundles
Four wooden sticks, hole near top for cord, one bound with copper coils
White glass bead bracelet on straw thong, bundle of three wooden sticks, coiled with brass, copper wire attached
- Materials:
- beads, glass , thong, straw , sticks, wood , coils, brass and coils, copper
- Object Number:
- A657302 Pt13
- type:
- bracelet - jewelry
Wooden peg with hole running through its length
Two dried fruits, both split open
Stone, porous, with indentation, white
Amulet case, leather, coiled leather bracelet and canvas bag attached
Iron Flintlock Sideplate with Spring Mechanism for attaching to side of Flintlock Firearm
- Materials:
- iron and metal (unknown)
- Object Number:
- A657302 Pt18
- type:
- antique firearm , component and spring
Arrowhead, steel, hollow shaft
Dried nut, honeycomb appearance, roughly ball shaped
Three bird's feet with curved pointed talons
Amuletic cloth bag full of medicine, fibre, grass, etc.
Cartridge case, brass, from Maxim gun
Dried leaf, folded longitudinally, very fragile
Bundle of dried grass and sandy dirt
Long hide thong tied into bundle
Carved wooden peg, cylindrical with waisted centre
Two identical pieces of animal bone
Two leather amulet cases
Canvas bag, contains dried fruits, old beads, fragments of stones, shells, wood, metal, sand, etc.
Dakka smoking pipe, twisted antelope horn, fired clay bowl
