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1920.91.20

Gourd with twisted plant fibre bound around its middle and hair protruding from the mouth of the gourd, ingredient for magic. [FB 14/11/2012]

1920.91.20

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Collection type
Object
Description
Gourd with twisted plant fibre bound around its middle and hair protruding from the mouth of the gourd, ingredient for magic. [FB 14/11/2012]
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1920
Date collected
By 1920
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1920
Materials and processes
Material Gourd Plant, Material Hair, Material Plant Fibre, Process Tied, Process Bound, Process Knotted, Process Twisted
Dimensions
Width: max 55 mm approx, Length: max 135 mm approx
Object numbers
Accession number: 1920.91.20
Research and responses

Note that Herbert Willoughby Woodward [qv] was based at Magila, Zanzibar for UMCA from circa 1878 - 1921, it seems unlikely, but not impossible that there should have been another Woodward, with different initials [ie A.D. Woodward] based in the same place at about the same time [AP 17/08/2004]

Search terms: Ritual and Ceremonial, Status, Religion, Vessel, Plant, Religious Object

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