Carved wooden hand

SMG00167658

Creative Commons LicenseThis image is released under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Licence

License this image for commercial use at Science and Society Picture Library

License

SMG00167658
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Carved wooden hand, amuletic protection against Evil Eye, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1870-1900

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A666101
Materials:
wood
Measurements:
length 164 mm
width 30 mm
depth 25 mm
type:
amulets