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

Made:: 1880-1930

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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

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A657930

Materials:: nut, shell and string

type:: amulet

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