Fetish

29-59-83

From: Angola

Curatorial Section: African

Object Number 29-59-83
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Ambundu
Provenience Angola
Section African
Materials Horn (animal part) | Fiber | Leather
Description

Horn wrapped partly with cloth; filled with medicine. "Bought from the Chief Mbundu on the Luhi River. This is a very rare and exceptional piece, especially difficult to obtain, as the natives do not want to part with such things. I exhanged some of my German medicine against colic for it - it took nearly two days of arguments to persuade him to part with it and another fetish."

Length 47 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Henry C. Mercer, 1927
Other Number Mercer unknown - Old Museum Number | 93 - Collector Number

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