Object name: Cowrie shell / Media available: legacy documentation

Start Over Object name Cowrie shell Media available legacy documentation

Museum number:: 5-15958
Culture or time period:: Yoruba
Function:: 5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Collector:: Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:: Ife, Nigeria
Collection date:: 1937-1951

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