Medicine man's equipment

Made:: 1880-1930

Medicine man's equipment, containing elephant hair switch, a rectangular brass tin, a gourd, a piece of bark, and two pieces of wooden branch, and a board with stick and feathers, African, 1880-1930

Switch made from elephant hair

Brass tin containing moss, chalk, and shells

Container, hollowed-out gourd

Bark, part of medicine man's equipment

Branches, part of medicine man's equipment

Board with stick

Details

Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A658210

type:: medicine man's outfits

credit:: Loan, Wellcome Trust

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