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Object Number
30-32-50/B4550
Display Title
Crocodile's tooth (noiwa ?), leopard's claw (sofu ?)
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Ornament, perf. tooth connected withcotton string to claw, both resin coated?
Classification
- Ornament
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Kogogo
- Wahehe
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Tanzania
/
Wahehe
Additional Geographic Terms
Tanganyika Territory
Dimensions
Overall: 17.1 x 2.7 x 2.7 cm (6 3/4 x 1 1/16 x 1 1/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
30-32-50/ B4550/ B-4550
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|
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| |
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| |
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Raw Material
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| |
| 98-3-50/51290 | Necklace of two genuine and nine carved ivory/bone leopards' teeth |
Necklace
|
Congo
| |
| 22-2-50/B3103 | Divining outfit: leopard's leg bone |
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|
Cameroon
| |
| 35-31-50/1197 | Leopard's whiskers - very potent medicine harming people |
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Raw Material |
Cameroon
| |
| 22-2-50/B2980 | Leopard's whiskers |
Raw Material
Hair |
Cameroon
| |
| 2004.24.8671 | Two Human Leopards in prison |
Liberia
| ||
|
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for Divining object, piece leopard's skin
| 22-2-50/B3041 | Divining object, piece leopard's skin |
Cameroon
| ||
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|
Egypt
| |
| 78-64-50/16528.4 | Young crocodiles, mummied |
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|
Egypt
| |
| 78-64-50/16528.2 | Young crocodiles, mummied |
Mummy
|
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