Small skin medicine man's bag, hung with chains

Made:: 1880-1910 in South Africa

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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

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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

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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