Witch doctor's bracelet leather thong strung with pieces of vertebrae

Made:: 1880-1920 in Zimbabwe

Witch doctor's bracelet leather thong strung with pieces of
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Witch doctor's bracelet leather thong strung with pieces of vertebrae, triangular horn ornaments with incised decoration and a divination bone, Barotse, Zambia, 1880-1920

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A657928

Materials:: bone, animal vertebrae, horn, leather, thong and bone, divination bone

Measurements:: bracelet, doubled: length 126 mm
divination bone: length 78 mm
vertebrae: thickness 22 mm

type:: bracelet - jewelry

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Witch doctor's bracelet leather thong strung with pieces of vertebrae

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