Necklace, formed from 27 pieces of root threaded on knotted fibre

Made:: 1850-1900 in Tembuland

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Necklace, formed from 27 pieces of root threaded on knotted fibre, roots nibbled to alleviate a cough, from Tembuland, South Africa, 1850-1900

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A666103

Materials:: roots and fibre

type:: necklace

credit:: Kajanjana Leper Asylum

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Necklace, formed from 27 pieces of root threaded on knotted fibre

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