Wooden lip plug

Made:: 1880-1920 in Zambia

Wooden lip plug, cylindrical disc, one surface concaved
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Wooden lip plug, cylindrical disc, one surface concaved, the other is covered with tin and has central brass boss, Awemba tribe, maker, Rhodesia, 1880-1920

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A658270

Materials:: wood, tin and brass

Measurements:: diameter 47 mm
depth 21 mm

type:: lip plugs

credit:: Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)

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Wooden lip plug

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