divination equipment
- Museum number
- Af1963,21.11
- Description
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Divining equipment (with thong) made of leather, vertebrae (?), bones (ankle), bone, wire (iron).
- Dimensions
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Height: 7 centimetres
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Width: 25.50 centimetres
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Depth: 2 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1963
- Acquisition notes
- Af1963,21.1 to 25 were acquired by exchange with Ralph Nash. Nos.1 to 22 is a group of divining implements that he had collected between 1943 and 1951 in the southern parts of Africa, and the register contains his records on where and when he had acquired them. The remaining three items also come from the southern regions of Africa.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1963,21.11