Image
Category
Collection
Maker
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Four twigs wired together with oyster shell suspended

1900-1925

Medicine man's snakeskin and iron implement

1871-1930

Two animal horns filled with "medicine" and joined

1880-1930

Collection of rag bundles and twigs from medicine man's outfit

1880-1925

8 tusks and 6 small pieces of wood on knotted leather thong

1880-1920

Forked twig with string tied around it

1880-1920

Small bundle of twigs and leaves bound by fibrous bark ribbon

1880-1920

Medicine man's leather amulet and iron rattle

1880-1910

Woven fibre medicine man's bag containing cloth

1871-1920

Medicine man's equipment of wooden pin with wooden disc studded with brass nails

1880-1920

Covering for a medicine man's medicine chest (?) t

1880-1925

Medicine man's equipment consisting of pouch of echidna skin

1890-1910

Cluster of cane tubes bound together to form cylinder

1860-1920

Magical bundle called "kubil" (kill sixty) composed by several small gourds

1888-1925

Bundle of bones covered in red cloth

1880-1920

Part of medicine man's equipment

1880-1928

Hide pouch

1860-1920

Medicine man's equipment

1880-1920

Ten white feathers tied together with piece of bark

1871-1920

Medicine man's equipment

1880-1920

Leaf of medicine man's book

1880-1920

Medicine man's plaited string bag with sling

1870-1920

Small iron instruments threaded on to a bar either side of a nut

1880-1930

Four pegs of carved wood threaded together onto string

1880-1920

Twisted leather cord with steel bell

1871-1910

Large flat cake of earth used as "medicine" by witch doctor

1860-1920

Medicine man's equipment

1880-1930

Bundle of sticks covered in red cotton cloth and bound with string and splints of wood

1880-1920

Medicine man's bag reputedly containing bundles of dried grass

1890-1930

Contents of a medicine man's pouch or bag, including fragments of leaves and grasses, stones, minerals and metal hook, African, 1880-1920

Contents of a medicine man's pouch or bag

1880-1920

Medicine man's book or "Ngato Namelete", five hide leaves, roughly circular, small bell attached, Ganda tribe, Uganda, 1890-1920

Medicine man's book or "Ngato Namelete"

1890-1920

Medicine man's cotton outfit belonging to a member of a secret society, combination garment surmounted by carved wooden head, neck adorned with red scarf, bells, beads etc, Southern Nigerian, 1880-1920

Medicine man's cotton outfit belonging to a member of a secret society

1880-1920

Medicine man's outfit, plaited string dress with hood, arms and legs, Southern Nigerian, 1880-1918

Medicine man's outfit

1880-1918

Pair of iron tongs and a spoon, Azande, maker, North East Belgian Congo, 1890-1930

Pair of iron tongs and a spoon

1890-1930

Witch doctor's robe, blue cloth with thin white stripes, lines of objects sewn on to it, Nigerian, 1870-1935

Witch doctor's robe

1870-1935