Fetish

Museum number:
5-15592
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050015592
Accession number:
Acc.4556
Description:
Pouch, leather, triangular. Arching leather handle. Clusters of metal chain links around outside of pouch. Sausage shaped fetish attached by chain to pouch. Pouch shaped for fetish. Cowrie shells attached to fetish. Width (pouch) circa 28.0 cm, Fetish Length 12.5 cm. From West Africa, Sahel.
Donor:
Daniel J. Crowley and Pearl Crowley
Collection place:
Western Africa
Verbatim coll. place:
West Africa; Sahel
Collector:
Daniel J. Crowley and Pearl Crowley
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Fetishes
Function:
5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Fetish, accession number 5-15592, described as Pouch, leather, triangular. Arching leather handle. Clusters of metal chain links around outside of pouch. Sausage shaped fetish attached by chain to pouch. Pouch shaped for fetish. Cowrie shells attached to fetish. Width (pouch) circa 28.0 cm, Fetish Length 12.5 cm. From West Africa, Sahel.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fetish, accession number 5-15592, described as Pouch, leather, triangular. Arching leather handle. Clusters of metal chain links around outside of pouch. Sausage shaped fetish attached by chain to pouch. Pouch shaped for fetish. Cowrie shells attached to fetish. Width (pouch) circa 28.0 cm, Fetish Length 12.5 cm. From West Africa, Sahel.

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