Dried sheep's foot
- maker:
- Akikuya people
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Dried sheep's foot, bone of lower part of leg with skin covering, used in purificatory rites, Akikuya, Kenya, 1880-1926
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A657244
- Materials:
- bone, sheep and skin, sheep
- type:
- amulet
- credit:
- Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett
