charm(?)
- Museum number
- Af1939,07.22
- Description
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String of charms; made of animal material; four flat pieces of armadillo plate?, separated by rows of mammal vertebrae, with a number of pieces of nut at each end, strung on fibre string.
- Dimensions
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Height: 22 centimetres
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Width: 23 centimetres
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Depth: 2.30 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1939:
'Used by Hausas for casting lots. N.Nigeria' .
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1939
- Acquisition notes
- Register 1939:
1-30,34,35 Collected by donor in northern Nigeria between 1909 and 1934.
Coll. 1913.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1939,07.22
