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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
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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