Decorative ear distender of wood with suspended metal chain

Made:: 1880-1910 in Kenya

Decorative ear distender of wood with suspended metal chain
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Decorative ear distender of wood with suspended metal chain, Masai tribe, Kenya, Africa, 1880-1910

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A652593

Materials:: wood and steel, ? material

Measurements:: length 626 mm
diameter 55 mm
ring: depth 19 mm

type:: ear-distender

credit:: Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)

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Decorative ear distender of wood with suspended metal chain

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