Half a calabash

Made:: South America

Half a calabash, sectioned vertically, containing curane, probably South American

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A661008

Materials:: gourd and string

type:: calabash

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Half a calabash

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