- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Knotted symbol. Makes up part of the contents [.2 - .246] of gourd [1919.66.1 .1]. [AB 19/2/2020]
- Person
- Field collector Universities' Mission to Central Africa
- PRM source Universities' Mission to Central Africa
- PRM source Josephine Choveaux
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1919
- Date collected
- By 1919
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1919
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Process Carved, Process Split, Process Recycled
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1919.66.1.9
Search terms: Religion, Divination Religion, Religious Object, Divination Accessory
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