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Clay drum covered with animal skin secured to the pot by irregular criss-cross lacings of strips of hide, used in girls initiation ceremony, Basuto, South Africa, 1900-1925
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A655929
- Materials:
- clay, skin, animal and hide, straps
- type:
- drums
- credit:
- Christol, F.
