Carved wooden dog with a beeswax dorsal casket on back with inset mirror (broken) wooden bones with beeswax ends hung around body, prepared by the medicine man, Mayombe tribe(?), maker, Congo, 1880-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A658220
- Materials:
- wood, beeswax, cloth and collar, iron
- Measurements:
-
approx.: height 190 mm
length 390 mm
width 126 mm
bone, max.: length 153 mm
bone, max.: width 42 mm
- type:
- dogs
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)
