Amulet

2003-63-132

From: Liberia

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 2003-63-132
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Liberia
Section African
Materials Animal Bone Joint
Description

Snakebone amulet from 1894 Chicago Fair. Fourteen pieces of vertebrae strung on string/fiber(?).

Length 23 cm
Width 1.5 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1993.X.8 - Other Number

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