charm;
divination equipment
- Museum number
- Af1932,0514.34
- Description
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Charm, divination outfit (part of) made of textile, cotton.
- Dimensions
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Height: 1 centimetres
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Width: 1.20 centimetres
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Depth: 3.30 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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See Rev. W Holman Bentley, ‘Pioneering on the Congo’, London (The Religious Tract Society), 1900 vol.I p.259 (with illustration):
[on fetishes in his possession] “Two others are cleverly-worked ‘sausages’ worked in some stiff vegetable fibre, contents unknown.”
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See Ethdoc 192 - Notes on the Divining Basket from the Ovimbundu tribe, Dondi, Angola - L S Tucker, 30.5.1932
... 34. Ekoka, attraction, a charm to draw to you all you desire, money, fowls, etc.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1932
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1932,0514.34