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Object Number 11-46-50/83158
Display Title Snake skin from 11-46-50/83148
Descriptions
Inventory Description Snake skin, black stripes on bluff, dessicated
Classification
  • Medicine bundle
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Umbundu
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Angola
Materials Snakeskin
Dimensions Overall: 19 x 4 x 7 cm (7 1/2 x 1 9/16 x 2 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 83158
Credit Line Museum Purchase, 1911 Huntington Frothingham Wolcott Fund

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