Twisted leather cord with steel bell
- maker:
- Yoruba people
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Twisted leather cord with steel bell, animal horn and three sharpened steel blades attached, Yoruba medicine man's equipment, so, Yoruba tribe, Nigeria, 1871-1910
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A658367
- Measurements:
-
cord, doubled: length 332 mm
bell: length 90 mm
bell: width 45 mm
bell: depth 34 mm
horn: length 167 mm
horn: diameter 26 mm
blade: length 78 mm
blade: width 23 mm
blade: thickness 1 mm
- type:
- medicine man equipment
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)
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