Object name: Fetish bundle / Object class: Fetishes / Culture or time period: Bantu (Zone C) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Fetish bundle, accession number 5-13884, described as Fetish bundle., Zaire, Ngombe. 5-13884, acc no. 3510. Orig. No. 79117a. File code: 1.7 Collector: unknown Donor: Dr. & Mrs. Mitsuo Inouye. Materials, techniques: Iron, basketry, fur, raffia, wood Context of use: Pommel said by appraiser to contain fetish material. Description: Fetish bundle-- multiple linear diagonal slashes; basketry material wrapped over wood hilt; pommel has remnant of reddish brown fur over grass-like bundle (raffia); l. 67.5 cm. (Authorized correction by Leon Siroto, 3/3/93). References: Ijzerwerk van central-Afrika, H. Westwerdiyk, p. 78, group 3, fig. l; also ill. p.34.