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Medicine man's bag made from the skin of a small mammal, two buttons at opening, used for carrying "witchcraft bones", Basuto tribe, South Africa, 1890-1930
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A658239
- Materials:
- skin, animal, mammal
- type:
- medicine pouch
- credit:
- Christol, F.
