Circular piece of fungus from a medicine man's outfit

Made:: 1900-1925

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Circular piece of fungus from a medicine man's outfit, Northern Rhodesia, 1900-1925

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A657888

Materials:: fungus

type:: fungus - plant material

credit:: Clarke, S.

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Circular piece of fungus from a medicine man's outfit

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