Solid cloth covered amulet
- Made:
- 1880-1910
Solid cloth covered amulet, ovoid, decorated with cowrie shells, lengths of cloth at either end, to cure fits by hanging round the patient's neck, Togoland, West Africa, 1880-1910
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A651183
- Materials:
- cloth, string, cowrie and resin, ? material
- type:
- therapeutic amulets
- credit:
- Umlauff Museum