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Wood log roughly carved in stylised phallic form bound with plaited wicker, described as magico-religious object connected with fertility found buried in a sacred grave, Chiloango tribe, Congo(?), or Zaire
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A657374
- Materials:
- wood and wrapper, wicker
- type:
- amulets
- credit:
- Glendining
