Iron bell with long handle

Made:
1851-1900 in Nigeria
maker:
Yoruba people
Iron bell with long handle, looped at top, clapperless

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Iron bell with long handle, looped at top, clapperless
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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.