Solid cloth covered amulet

Made:: 1880-1910

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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

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Object Number:: A651183

Materials:: cloth, cowrie, resin, ? material, string

type:: therapeutic amulets folk medicine (therapy), folk medicine (therapy), therapeutic amulets

credit:: Umlauff Museum

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