Leather girdle strung with 3 amulet cases
- Made:
- 1871-1920
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Leather girdle strung with 3 amulet cases, leather, one has flap and containes two metal rings, other two are sealed, West Africa, 1871-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A658265
- Materials:
- leather, fibre and goatskin, amulet case
- Measurements:
-
doubled: length 400 mm
case, open: length 70 mm
case, open: width 80 mm
case, sealed: length 60 mm
case, sealed: length 62 mm
case, max.: thickness 21 mm
- type:
- girdle - belt
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)
