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Ethnography and Folk Medicine
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Collection
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
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Ashanti (maker)
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Ashanti people
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Maasai (maker)
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Yoruba (maker)
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Yoruba people
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Zulu (maker)
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Science Museum
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Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries
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amulet
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doll
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ear-distender
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effigy
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tobacco pipes
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Place
Africa
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Ilorin
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Ilorin, Kwara, Nigeria
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South Africa
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Material
decoration, glass, beads
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wood
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bowl lining, tin
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cloth
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decoration, brass
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decoration, copper
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decoration, cord
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decoration, cowries
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decoration, leather
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Carved wooden fetish doll or "Akua Mma"
1890-1910
Carved male effigy
1880-1895
Carved wooden amulet with herring bone design threaded at top with plaited fibre string
1880-1920
Wooden tobacco pipe
1890-1925
Circular wooden ring
1850-1920
