Charm
- Museum number:
- 5-10191
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050010191
- Alternate number:
- B-566 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.2819
- Description:
- charm; necklace-like; leather and snake?skin; L. 88 cm.
- Donor:
- Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
- Collection place:
- Nigeria
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Africa; Nigeria; Epe; Yoruba
- Culture or time period:
- Yoruba
- Collector:
- William Russell Bascom
- Collection date:
- 1944
- Materials:
- Leather and Snakeskin
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Charms
- Function:
- 5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
- Accession date:
- 1971
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- length 88 centimeters
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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