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IPSMG:R.1935.137.6

Ipswich Collections

Undyed leather 'string' with attached, suspended charm sewn up in black leather sheath and also a string of 20 cowrie shells. No 5. of a series of charm-related items. 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'.

Southern Nigeria, Africa

1901-01-01 - 1917-01-01

leather, cowrie shell