Band of elephant hair with cowrie shell attached

Made:: 1880-1925

Band of elephant hair with cowrie shell attached
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Band of elephant hair with cowrie shell attached, according to R card, the natives wear it hung round the neck as a remedy or preservative, Northern Rhodesia, 1880-1925

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A657887

Materials:: shell, cowrie and hair, elephant

Measurements:: band: length 65 mm
shell: length 23 mm
shell: width 16 mm
shell: depth 8 mm

type:: amulet

credit:: Clarke, S.

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Band of elephant hair with cowrie shell attached

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