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LicenseTortoiseshell amulet to promote sturdy growth in children
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© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Tortoiseshell amulet to promote sturdy growth in children
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Tortoiseshell amulet to promote sturdy growth in children
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Tortoiseshell amulet to promote sturdy growth in children, cavapace and plastron fringe of grass beads and strings of steel rings, Hevevo tribe, South West Africa, 1880-1910
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A655900
- Materials:
- tortoise, glass, beads, steel and hide
- type:
- amulet
- credit:
- Sotheby's
