Gourd container with paper stopper

Made:: 1890-1925 in Kenya

Gourd container with paper stopper, yellow powder inside
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Gourd container with paper stopper, yellow powder inside, part of medicine man's equipment, Akikuyu tribe, Kenya, 1890-1925

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A657246

Materials:: gourd and paper, stopper

Measurements:: length 178 mm
diameter 51 mm

type:: container

credit:: Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett

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