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LicenseCollection of amulets including two oyster bi-valves
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Collection of amulets including two oyster bi-valves, a vertebrae section, a twig, a piece of bark and a breast bone, perforated and threaded onto string, Barotseland, Zambia, 1880-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A657920
- Materials:
- bone, animal vertebrae and breast bone, oyster and wood, twig and bark
- Measurements:
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breast bone: length 153 mm
shell, max.: length 108 mm
vertebrae: width 73 mm
- type:
- amulet
- credit:
- Christol, F.
