Ivory figurine carved in the flat

Made:: 1880-1930 in Democratic Republic of Congo

Ivory figurine carved in the flat
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Ivory figurine carved in the flat, suspended from elephant hair belt, pivoted from lateral perforation in the shoulder, crouching female with hands raised to cheeks, worn by pregnant women, upper Congo, 1880-1930

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A655912

Materials:: ivory, belt, hair, elephant and copper (wire)

Measurements:: amulet: height 85 mm
amulet: length 38 mm
amulet: width 18 mm
belt, doubled: length 390 mm

type:: figurine and amulet

credit:: Glendining

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Ivory figurine carved in the flat

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