Cylindrical leather amulet case and leather horn threaded onto twisted leather thong

Made:: 1880-1920 in Sudan

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Cylindrical leather amulet case and leather horn threaded onto twisted leather thong, Sudan, North East Africa, 1880-1920

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A651174

Materials:: leather

Measurements:: cylindrical case: length 82 mm
cylindrical case: diameter 49 mm
horn: length 85 mm
thong, doubled: length 75 mm

type:: amulet case

credit:: Martin, V.C.

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Cylindrical leather amulet case and leather horn threaded onto twisted leather thong

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