Divining outfit

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Object Number 22-2-50/B3373

Display Title Divining outfit

Descriptions

Object Description Divining outfit: pangolin scale; "mwet a nolos jam je" = owner of thing spoils or destroyed.

Inventory Description Charm, worked Pangolin scale, slit perforations, slip of scale passed through 2

Classification

Charm

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Basa?

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Africa / Cameroon

Additional Geographic Terms Cameroon, southern

Materials Pangolin scale, Pigment?

Dimensions Overall: 3.5 x 2 x 0.4 cm (1 3/8 x 13/16 x 3/16 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object B-3373; 5

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22-2-50/B3220	Divining outfit	Charm	Cameroon
22-2-50/B3154	Divining outfit:	Charm	Cameroon
22-2-50/B3288	Divining outfit	Charm	Cameroon
22-2-50/B3121	Divining outfit: scale of pangolin;	Charm	Cameroon
22-2-50/B3120	Divining outfit: scale of pangolin; your palaver will come to nought	Charm	Cameroon
22-2-50/B3320	Divining outfit	Charm	Cameroon
22-2-50/B3290	Divining outfit	Charm	Cameroon
22-2-50/B3271	Divining outfit	Charm	Cameroon
22-2-50/B3272	Divining outfit	Charm	Cameroon
22-2-50/B3118	Divining outfit: scale of pangolin, do not eat crabs	Charm	Cameroon
22-2-50/B3292	Divining outfit: scale of pangolin; "tem bag jam" = lies	Charm	Cameroon
22-2-50/B3151	Divining outfit	Charm	Cameroon

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