Fetish
AF3684
Location: On Display in the Africa Galleries
From: Maritime Congo
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | AF3684 |
| Current Location | Africa Galleries - On Display |
| Culture | Bakongo |
| Provenience | Maritime Congo |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Wood | Glass | Wool |
| Description | "Medicine" cap broken, casket intact. Belt and necklet of red woolen cloth, "medicine" bag of same material hangs from right wrist. Few nails in what is evidently quite an old example suggest secondary use as "nail fetish". Face and neck originally whitened. |
| Height | 39.5 cm |
| Width | 17 cm |
| Depth | 18 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from W. O. Oldman, 1912 |
| Other Number | 27034 - Field No SF |
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