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Container made from the skull of a gazelle, pot-shaped, covered in hide, known as "Koba Ya paa" inside in a soot-like powder which affords a powerful protection against witchcraft Bondei, Tanganyika, 1880-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A651686
- Materials:
- bone, skull, anteolpe and hide
- type:
- container
