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Divining outfit
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Object Number 22-2-50/B3179
Display Title Divining outfit
Descriptions
Object Description Divining outfit: scale of pangolin; "it a kel" = someting secret. One scale = man dies mouth open - he tells other scale = woman; she hears but has no mouth = she don't tell further
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Basa?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Cameroon
Additional Geographic Terms Cameroon, southern

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