Four wood pegs with discoid heads and cylindrical stems bound with animal hair fringes and strung together

Made:
1890-1926
Four wood pegs with discoid heads and cylindrical stems bound Four wood pegs with discoid heads and cylindrical stems bound

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Four wood pegs with discoid heads and cylindrical stems bound
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Four wood pegs with discoid heads and cylindrical stems bound
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London

Four wood pegs with discoid heads and cylindrical stems bound with animal hair fringes and strung together, African, 1890-1926

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A657947
Materials:
wood, pegs, cotton, hair, fringe and string
type:
amulet
credit:
Pareyn, H.