Charm

Museum number:
5-4361
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050004361
Accession number:
Acc.2037
Description:
Charm for millet (Koa dao = stone millet); red stained quartz pebble; also used as mulet against diarrhea (water in which stone was immersed is drunk as medicine); L. 6 cm.
Donor:
Paul Hinderling and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Mokolo, North Region, Cameroon
Verbatim coll. place:
N. Cameroon; Mokolo; Mafa tribe
Culture or time period:
Mafa tribe
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Charms
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
1965
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Charm, accession number 5-4361, described as Charm for millet (Koa dao = stone millet); red stained quartz pebble; also used as mulet against diarrhea (water in which stone was immersed is drunk as medicine); L. 6 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Charm, accession number 5-4361, described as Charm for millet (Koa dao = stone millet); red stained quartz pebble; also used as mulet against diarrhea (water in which stone was immersed is drunk as medicine); L. 6 cm.

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