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Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Figurine of kneeling woman or child with protuberant belly and hands by cheeks forming pendant, made of bone (?), from upper Congo, 1880-1920
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Science Museum: Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries
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Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Object Number:
- A652553
- type:
- protective amulets and folk medicine (protection), female, folk medicine (protection), pendants, protective amulets and statues
- credit:
- Loan, Wellcome Trust
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