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Fetish, suspended from roof of hut inside to protect the house
Fetish, suspended from roof of hut inside to protect the house
Object Number 21-28-50/B2829.1
Display Title Fetish, suspended from roof of hut inside to protect the house
Descriptions
Inventory Description Medicine bundle, horn, wrapped in fiber, twisted fiber cord on one end
Classification
  • Raw Material
  • Medicine bundle
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Basa?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Cameroon
Additional Geographic Terms West Africa
Materials Horn, Vegetable fiber
Dimensions Overall: 16.5 x 4.2 x 3.5 cm (6 1/2 x 1 5/8 x 1 3/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object B2829

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