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Cowrie shell
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5-15958
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Yoruba
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5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
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Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Ife, Nigeria
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1937-1951
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