Wooden ancestral effigy
- Made:
- 1900-1930
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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
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A657304
- type:
- effigy
- credit:
- Jeffreys, M.D.W.
