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Actions Displays	Details Remove from selection Add to selection Object number IPSMG:R.1935.137.7 Institution name Ipswich Collections Object name charm Description No 6. of a series of charm-related items. Thong of brown leather with ornamental arrangement of cowries and beads on triangular-shaped woven piece of cloth. There are five cowries and strings of small beads attached around the edge. According to the Extensions register, this item, was part of a series of 12 items that were 'the stock in trade of a ju-ju man in South Nigeria'. They may be the article within the 1934 loan list, within Section D, from the 'Efik tribe, Calabar, Cross River' (number 57) as the terminology used in the article is similar 'A fortune-teller's stock-in-trade'. Production place Southern Nigeria, Africa Production date 1901-01-01 - 1917-01-01 Material leather, cotton, cowrie shell, glass Tags Comments Add tag(s) Add comment

Object number

IPSMG:R.1935.137.7
Institution name

Ipswich Collections
Object name

charm
Description

No 6. of a series of charm-related items. Thong of brown leather with ornamental arrangement of cowries and beads on triangular-shaped woven piece of cloth. There are five cowries and strings of small beads attached around the edge. According to the Extensions register, this item, was part of a series of 12 items that were 'the stock in trade of a ju-ju man in South Nigeria'. They may be the article within the 1934 loan list, within Section D, from the 'Efik tribe, Calabar, Cross River' (number 57) as the terminology used in the article is similar 'A fortune-teller's stock-in-trade'.
Production place

Southern Nigeria, Africa
Production date

1901-01-01 - 1917-01-01
Material

leather, cotton, cowrie shell, glass

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