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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