Tusk with thong attached on which are threaded snake vertebrae

Made:: 1851-1920 in Uganda

Tusk with thong attached on which are threaded snake vertebrae
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Tusk with thong attached on which are threaded snake vertebrae, shells and nuts, possibly contained tobacco or some other substance in cavity protected by hide cap, from east Uganda, 1851-1920

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A651644

Materials:: ivory, shell and nuts

Measurements:: tusk: length 258 mm
tusk: length 265 mm
cap: diameter 27 mm

type:: tusks

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Tusk with thong attached on which are threaded snake vertebrae

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