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Object Number
11-46-50/83168
Display Title
Hide disc with shells from 11-46-50/83148
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Circular animal skin with fur, 4 shells attached in cross pattern
Classification
- Medicine bundle
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Umbundu
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Angola
Additional Geographic Terms
Benquilla, 300 mi east of
Materials
Animal hide, Cowrie, Thread
Dimensions
Overall: 5 x 4.7 x 0.8 cm (1 15/16 x 1 7/8 x 5/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
83168
Credit Line
Museum Purchase, 1911
Huntington Frothingham Wolcott Fund
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PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
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| 11-46-50/83169.20 | Shell from 11-46-50/83148 |
Medicine bundle
|
Angola
| |
| 11-46-50/83169.22 | Cowrie shell from 11-46-50/83148 |
Medicine bundle
|
Angola
| |
| 11-46-50/83169.21 | Ornament from 11-46-50/83148 |
Medicine bundle
|
Angola
| |
| 11-46-50/83169.37 | Animal paw fragment from 11-46-50/83148 |
Medicine bundle
|
Angola
| |
| 11-46-50/83150.1 | Chicken claws from basket 11-46-50/83148 |
Medicine bundle
|
Angola
| |
| 35-50-50/1385.1 | Hide strip with fur, appliqued cowrie shell edging and 4 point design, tail at e |
Accessory
|
Tanganyika
| |
| 35-50-50/1385 | Cow skin strip with tail and cowrie shells - part of medicine man's + |
Hide
|
Tanganyika
| |
| 11-46-50/83158 | Snake skin from 11-46-50/83148 |
Medicine bundle
|
Angola
| |
| 11-46-50/83152 | Parts of animal heads from 11-46-50/83148 |
Medicine bundle
|
Angola
| |
| 11-46-50/83154 | Animal teeth from 11-46-50/83148 |
Medicine bundle
|
Angola
| |
| 11-46-50/83169.1 | Fetish bundle from 11-46-50/83148 |
Medicine bundle
|
Angola
| |
| 11-46-50/83169.25 | Fetish bundle from 11-46-50/83148 |
Medicine bundle
|
Angola
|