Medicine man's outfit

Made:: 1880-1930

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Medicine man's outfit, incomplete
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Medicine man's outfit, incomplete, leather belt with rattle and necklet and pouch attached, South African, 1880-1930

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A657352

Materials:: leather, wood and skin

type:: medicine man's outfits

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