Armlet charm, to make pursuers take wrong road. Stitched leather with a small pendant, also made of leather.

Collection type: Object
Description: Armlet charm, to make pursuers take wrong road. Stitched leather with a small pendant, also made of leather.
Geographical reference: Nigeria
Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria; Nasarawa Abuja
Person: Field collector Hubert Frank Mathews; PRM source Hubert Frank Mathews
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1913
Date collected: By 1913
Acquisition information: Donated: 1913
Materials and processes: Material Animal Leather Skin, Process Covered, Process Stitched
Dimensions: Diameter: max 70 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1913.2.15
Associated publications: Illustrated on page 9 of Amulets: A World of Secret Powers, Charms and Magic by Sheila Paine (London: Thames and Hudson, 2004). There is no caption. This is displayed along with other amulets from the 1913.2. collection all of which are credited with a single (and therefore incorrect) accession number on page 186 as 'Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, Acc. 1913.2.4' [sic]. Copy in RDF. [JP 15/10/2004]

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