Small skin medicine man's bag, hung with chains

Small skin medicine man's bag hung with chains, tortoiseshell Small skin medicine man's bag hung with chains, tortoiseshell

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Small skin medicine man's bag hung with chains, tortoiseshell
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Small skin medicine man's bag hung with chains, tortoiseshell
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Small skin medicine man's bag hung with chains, tortoiseshell, buttons and beads, contains wooden Kaffir-type tobacco pipe, Basuto tribe(?), South Africa, 1880-1910

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A657333
Materials:
skin, animal, tortoiseshell, chains, iron, cloth and beads, glass
Measurements:
length 230 mm
flat: width 230 mm
suspended: length 530 mm
carapace: length 70 mm
carapace: width 58 mm
type:
medicine man's outfits

Parts

Tobacco Pipe

Tobacco Pipe

Wooden tobacco pipe, slender cylindrical bowl, vertical, with rounded base, narrow tubular stem, tin bowl lining, lead rim, Kaffir tribe(?) maker, South Africa, 1871-1900

Measurements:
bowl: height 69 mm
length 150 mm
bowl: diameter 27 mm
stem, max: diameter 10 mm
Materials:
wood , lining, tin and rim, lead
Object Number:
A657333 Pt1
type:
pipe - smoking equipment