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IPSMG:R.1935.137.8

Ipswich Collections

Triangular pouch of cloth with charms sewn within, ornamental red and white beads in a circle and with a white stone sewn at the centre. There are three cowrie shells sewn around edge. Strip of blue cloth attached as belt. No 7. 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

cotton, cowrie shell, stone, glass