Carved wooden dog with a beeswax dorsal casket on

Made:
1880-1920 in Kinshasa

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
type:
dogs
credit:
Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)