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Divining bone, fish-shaped, with characteristic ring and dot design, symbols that, on being thrown down, provide a pattern for diagnosis, Mashukolumbwe tribe, North Western Zambesi River, 1880-1930
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A658225
- Materials:
- bone
- type:
- divination-bone
- credit:
- Sotheby's
