Power bundle
One strip holds a rattle (a pod containing beans). This may be a protective charm to ensure safety in childbirth. Operated by an nganga.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 9/1889/40
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Religion and magic
- Collection Area Region
- Central Africa
- Collector Excavator
- Dennett, Mr Richard Edward (from the collection of)
- Material
- cloth | horn | seed pod | |
- Common Name
- power bundle
- Simple Name
- power bundle
- Production Town
- Loango
- Production County
- Lower Congo River
- Production Country
- Angola; Congo, Democratic Republic of
- Production Person Initials
- Production Person Surname
- Production Year Low
- Production Year High
- 1889
