Bead necklace with stylized doll amulet fibre hair doll covered in multi-coloured beadwork

Made:: 1860-1910

Bead necklace with stylized doll amulet fibre hair doll covered
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Bead necklace with stylized doll amulet fibre hair doll covered in multi-coloured beadwork, multi-strand necklace of white beads, South African, 1860-1910

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A655895

Materials:: beads and fibre

Measurements:: necklace: length 285 mm
doll: height 125 mm
doll: diameter 70 mm

type:: statues

credit:: Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)

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Bead necklace with stylized doll amulet fibre hair doll covered in multi-coloured beadwork

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