artefact;
divination equipment
- Museum number
- Af1932,0514.39
- Description
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Spatulate artefact, divination outfit (part of) made of bone.
- Dimensions
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Height: 6 centimetres
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Width: 1.20 centimetres
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Depth: 0.20 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Ethdoc 192 - Notes on the Divining Basket from the Ovimbundu tribe, Dondi, Angola - L S Tucker, 30.5.1932
... 39. Osapi, key. The key of the other world. The spirits were locked in but now they have escaped. They have come up and are going about eating people and some are ill.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1932
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1932,0514.39