religious/ritual equipment;
container
- Museum number
- Am2002,12.3.b
- Description
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Abalone shell half
- Dimensions
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Height: 19 centimetres
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Width: 15.75 millimetres
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Depth: 5 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Used in healing ceremonies for HIV and AIDS patients, as part of cuturally sensitive services offered to Native American patients by the Native American AIDS Project.
Used as part of "smudging" purification practice. Shell used to collect the ash, and store the herb bundles.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2002
- Acquisition notes
- Donated during a collecting trip to San Francisco Native American AIDS Project, as part of the Wellcome Gallery Project.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am2002,12.3.b
