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LicenseIron effigy in male form, very crudely executed
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Iron effigy in male form, very crudely executed
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Iron effigy in male form, very crudely executed, strip of cow hide looped round leg; rings like a bell when struck and iaid to be be hung up and rung by pregnant women, Bakuba tribe(?), Congo, 1851-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A658221
- Materials:
- iron and strap, iron
- type:
- effigy
- credit:
- Martin, V.C.
