Wooden ancestral effigy

Made:: 1900-1930

Wooden ancestral effigy, covered with clay and pigment
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Wooden ancestral effigy, covered with clay and pigment, mould into crude head, wooden handle with iron suspension loop, used in prayers and oath, Southern Nigerian, 1900-1930

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A657304

Materials:: wood, clay and iron

Measurements:: length 225 mm
width 115 mm
depth 79 mm

type:: effigy

credit:: Jeffreys, M.D.W.

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Wooden ancestral effigy

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