Wooden ear pendant

Made:: 1880-1920 in Africa

Wooden ear pendant, circular disco concaved on both sides
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Wooden ear pendant, circular disco concaved on both sides, with central hole from which hangs fine steel chains, Masai tribe, East Africa, 1880-1920

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A655782

Materials:: wood and steel, chain

Measurements:: diameter 54 mm
width 19 mm
chain: length 430 mm

type:: ear-distender

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Wooden ear pendant

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