Gourd container with fibre stopper

Made:: 1860-1900 in Kenya

maker:: Akikuya people

Gourd container with fibre stopper, containing a red powder

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Gourd container with fibre stopper, containing a red powder, part of medicine man's equipment, Akikuya tribe, Kenya, 1860-1900

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A657251

Materials:: gourd and fibre

type:: container

credit:: Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett

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Gourd container with fibre stopper

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