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Bundle of power elements
Object Number 99-12-50/53231
Display Title Bundle of power elements
Descriptions
Object Description Bundle of power elements
Inventory Description Medicine bundle, vegetable fiber netted bag, with wrapped bundle inside
Classification
  • Medicine bundle
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Culture
  • Nubian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Egypt
Africa / Congo
Materials Vegetable fiber, Wood, Feather, Animal foot, Cloth
Dimensions Overall: 27 x 7 x 5.1 cm (10 5/8 x 2 3/4 x 2 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53231
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance Boston Museum
Donor David P. Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton
Donor L. Cushing Kimball

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