Bracelet of fine spiral copper wire with medicine man's "medicine" in form of knotted rags

Made:: 1890-1930 in Zambia

Bracelet of fine spiral copper wire with medicine man's
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Bracelet of fine spiral copper wire with medicine man's "medicine" in form of knotted rags, lengths of beads etc, Barotse, Northern Rhodesia, 1890-1930

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A658238

Materials:: copper, glass, shell, cloth and string

Measurements:: overall: length 141 mm
overall: width 127 mm
overall: thickness 28 mm

type:: bracelet - jewelry

credit:: Christol, F.

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Bracelet of fine spiral copper wire with medicine man's "medicine" in form of knotted rags

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