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Amulet, pair of leather pouches on thongs, containing waral skin in one case, kasiraswil root in other, therapy for snakebite, Sudanese, 1900-1908
One of these two square leather amulet cases, with tooled decoration on front, contains kasiraswil root and the other a disc of skin from the lizard iguana (plated lizard). If the wearer was bitten by a snake, they would rub the wound with the skin before cauterising it with the charred end of the root.
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- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A631396
- Materials:
- leather
- type:
- therapeutic amulets
- credit:
- Anderson, Dr.
