Four cowrie shells stuck to a glass display board from medicine man's collection of smallpox cures

Made:
1890-1930
Four cowrie shells stuck to a glass display board from medicine

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Four cowrie shells stuck to a glass display board from medicine
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Four cowrie shells stuck to a glass display board from medicine man's collection of smallpox cures, African, 1890-1930 see note

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A658209
Materials:
cowrie
type:
amulet