Medicine woman's necklace decorated with tufts of hair and black fruits.
Item
Title
Medicine woman's necklace decorated with tufts of hair and black fruits.
Creator
Creator Unrecorded
Subject
Neck Ornament
Ornament
Description
String of dried, black fruits decorated with tufts of hair [perhaps wildebeest] and threaded through fibre rings, ending in a pendant made from of larger tuft of hair [possibly from a different animal]. This would have been worn by a medicine woman, or a medicine woman in training, across the chest. [FHM27/06/2019]
Publisher
Making African Connections
Date
c.1930
Type
PhysicalObject
Format
Dried; Fruit
Beadwork
Identifier
ETH.ANG3.128
A37/128
Source
Space/Place
Angola
Africa
Rights
© The Powell-Cotton Trust