Medicine man's costume made from fibrous wood cloth

Made:: 1860-1900

Medicine man's costume made from fibrous wood cloth, turnip-shaped head hardened with cane frame, robe-like costume with sleeves, Brazil, South America, 1860-1900

Details

Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A652668

Materials:: cloth, black (?), cane and wood

Measurements:: approx: height 1900 mm
sleaves out stretched: length 1300 mm
head, approx: diameter 170 mm

type:: medicine man's outfits

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