FMNH 220965.nosub[1]

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    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Chicago Natural History Museum - Ethnology | 22-7 | Provenience: Cameroons (acc. L.S.) | People or Culture: Prob. a southern people: Beti? Maka? et al? | Object: Assemblage of magical objects | Material: Wood, brass, cloth, string, leather, iron, plant tissue | Description: Thin iron ring passing through perforated block of wood from which depend a group of diverse objects: thin iron pellet bell covered w/ leather, eye cosmetic container in leather (prob. Hausa mfg), horn-shaped piece of wood (hollow), antelope horn wrapped w/ brass wire, packet of undetermined substance wrapped in leaf, squarish cloth amulet, (over) | Dimensions: (in cm.) Length: 20.5. | Collection: Gift: Robert Campbell 1966 [LEFT MARGIN] A | ENT | 220965 | Field No. | Neg. No. | Acc. 2934 [BACK] [PHOTOGRAPH] small tablet of camwood, 1 small hollow piece of wood in form of antelope horn, 4 solid pieces of wood somewhat in shape of antelope horns, bundle of magical substance wrapped with string in knotless netting technique.
Catalog Number: 220965.nosub[1]
Description: assemblage of magical objects
Materials: wood, metal; iron, horn, metal; brass wire, cloth, string, leather, plant tissue
Cultural Attribution: Beti?, Maka?
Accession Number: [2934] R. C. Campbell (Gift)
Accession Year:
Collector/Source: Robert C. Campbell
EMu IRN: 1126911
GUID: 49829dbc-db84-4440-a103-c0afab3ac93f

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