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LicenseStuffed "princely Mastigure" lizard with amuletic inscription
Science Museum Group Collection
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Stuffed "princely Mastigure" lizard with amuletic inscription
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Stuffed "princely Mastigure" lizard with amuletic inscription on underbelly, hung over entrance door as protection against the "evil eye", North African, 1851-1900
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A651044
- Materials:
- princely mastigure (uvomostyx princeps)
- Measurements:
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overall: 63 mm x 410 mm x 109 mm, .205 kg
- type:
- lizards
- credit:
- Loan, Wellcome Trust
