Iron bell with long handle
- maker:
- Yoruba people
Iron bell with long handle, looped at top, clapperless, used in ceremonies, beaten alternately with another simular bell, amuletic, smallpox ju-ju, Yoruba tribe, Nigeria, 1851-1900
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A657211
- Materials:
- iron
- type:
- bell - idiophone
- credit:
- Johnson, C.G.