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Object Number
23-33-50/B3551
Display Title
Powerful fetish and case for same
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Medicine bundle, carved wood box containing worked stick, cloth bound
Classification
- Medicine bundle
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Angola
Additional Geographic Terms
West Africa
Materials
Wood, Pigment, Cloth
Dimensions
Overall: 6 x 18.7 x 7 cm (2 3/8 x 7 3/8 x 2 3/4 in.)
Quantity
3
Label on object
B3551
Provenance
Collector
William C. Bell
(before 1923)
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Unclassified
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Angola
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Medicine bundle
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Angola
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Image Not Available
for Pieces of petrified wood - show signs of being worked; powerful cutters;
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Saskatchewan
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Media Restricted
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Sakhalin Island
| |
| 2019.17.1.5.41 | H.M.S. Powerful |
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| ||
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|
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|
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|
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| |
| 21-28-50/B2829.1 | Fetish, suspended from roof of hut inside to protect the house |
Raw Material
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| |
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Raw Material
Medicine bundle |
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| |
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Raw Material
Medicine bundle |
Cameroon
| |
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Medicine bundle
Raw Material |
Cameroon
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