Amuletic bunch of nut shells threaded on coarse string and used in witchcraft

Made:: 1880-1930

Amuletic bunch of nut shells threaded on coarse string and used

Amuletic bunch of nut shells threaded on coarse string and used
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Amuletic bunch of nut shells threaded on coarse string and used in witchcraft, West African, 1880-1930

Details

Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A657930

Materials:: nut, shell and string

Measurements:: overall: length 280 mm
overall: width 200 mm
overall: height 75 mm
nut: length 51 mm
nut: width 25 mm

type:: amulet

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