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Object Number
22-2-50/B3057
Display Title
Divining object, skull of unknown animal, unclassified
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Skull of small mammal, most missing, part of divining outfit
Classification
- Bone
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Basa?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Cameroon
Additional Geographic Terms
Cameroon, southern
Materials
Bone
Dimensions
Overall: 3.9 x 2.3 x 1.3 cm (1 9/16 x 7/8 x 1/2 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
B-3057
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PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
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| 22-2-50/B3046 | Divining objects, skull of forest rat, cricetonys gambianus |
Bone
|
Cameroon
| |
| 22-2-50/B3044 | Divining objects, leg bones of rano goliath |
Bone
|
Cameroon
| |
| 22-2-50/B3106 | Divining outfit: pieces of skull of scale-tailed squirrel |
Faunal
|
Cameroon
| |
| 22-2-50/B3102 | Divining outfit: breast bone of the guinea fowl, guttera plumifbra |
Bone
|
Cameroon
| |
| 22-2-50/B3103 | Divining outfit: leopard's leg bone |
Bone
|
Cameroon
| |
| 22-2-50/B3108 | Divining outfit: "thorn" spine of fish, synodontis pardalis (probably) |
Bone
|
Cameroon
| |
| 22-2-50/B3101 | In detail divinig outfit |
Bone
|
Cameroon
| |
| 22-2-50/B3043 | Divining objects, shell of ? |
Shell
|
Cameroon
| |
| 22-2-50/B3048 | Divining object, lily bulb |
Floral
|
Cameroon
| |
| 22-2-50/B3051 | Divining object, crab's "shear" |
Claw
|
Cameroon
| |
| 22-2-50/B3054 | Divining objects, pebbles from stomach of crocodile, said to swallow + |
Mineral
|
Cameroon
| |
| 22-2-50/B3105 | Divining outfit: one-half lower jaw of civet cat |
Faunal
|
Cameroon
|