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LicenseCarved wooden anthropomorphic figure standing on incised base
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Carved wooden anthropomorphic figure standing on incised base, unremarkable bur for four sausage-shaped cloth bags suspended from brass ring around figure's neck, evidently " medicine" prepared by shaman, Mayombe tribe(?), Congo, 1880-1910
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A658217
- Materials:
- wood, neck ring, brass, cloth, bags, cord and hide
- type:
- statues
