Necklace, amuletic, incomplete

Necklace, amuletic, incomplete

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Necklace, amuletic, incomplete
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Necklace, amuletic, incomplete, disintegrated constructed of dried beans, vertebrae, shell discs, seeds etc, African, 1880-1935

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Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A658266
Materials:
cotton, beans, vertebrae, minute, shell and seeds
Measurements:
length 236 mm
max.: width 10 mm
type:
necklace and amulet