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Wooden anthropomorphic effigy, wearing skirt of hide strip, Mayombe (?), western Congo, African, 1880-1930
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A658219
- Materials:
- wood, skirt, leather, mirror, glass and resin, concretion
- type:
- effigies
- credit:
- Glendining
