Coiled weave basket for holding the materials applying enemas to children

Made:: 1860-1900 in Angola

Coiled weave basket for holding the materials applying enemas
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Coiled weave basket for holding the materials applying enemas to children, round bowl with hide base Orambo group, Southern Angola, Africa1860-1900

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A655936

Materials:: grass, weave and hide, base

Measurements:: height 55 mm
rim: diameter 220 mm

type:: enema equipment

credit:: Powell-Cotton

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Coiled weave basket for holding the materials applying enemas to children

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