Medicine man's bag reputedly containing bundles of dried grass

Made:: 1890-1930

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Medicine man's bag reputedly containing bundles of dried grass, Congolese, 1890-1930

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A658202

Materials:: string, cotton, cloth and grass

type:: medicine man equipment

credit:: Sotheby's

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Medicine man's bag reputedly containing bundles of dried grass

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