Medicine man's leather thong necklace strung cowrie shells and wooden pendants

Made:
1880-1930
Medicine man's leather thong necklace strung cowrie shells and

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Medicine man's leather thong necklace strung cowrie shells and wooden pendants, amongst them two club or hockey stick shaped objects, Nigerian(?), 1880-1930

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A658201
Materials:
leather, wood, cowrie, nut and gourd
Measurements:
necklace doubled: length 175 mm
suspended: height 440 mm
pendant, max.: height 300 mm
pendant, max.: width 70 mm
type:
necklace
credit:
Sotheby's

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