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Amulet Necklace

1991.14.0019

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Artifact Identification Amulet Necklace   (1991.14.0019)
Classification/
Nomenclature
  1. Communication Artifacts
    2. :
  2. Personal Symbols
    3. :
  3. Belief Symbols
Artist/Maker Unknown
Geographic Location
Period N/A
Date 1900 - 1930
Culture Kpelle, Gerse, Guerze, Kpese
Location Not on Exhibit

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Length) 54.6 cm
Dimension 2 (Width) 10.7 cm
Dimension 3 (Depth) 1.2 cm
Weight 45 g
Measuring Remarks N/A
Materials Animal--Skin--without Fur/Feathers/Scales, Textile--Cotton, Plant--Fiber, Plant--Cotton
Manufacturing Processes Tanning, Plaiting, Sewing, Stringing

Research Remarks

Description N/A
Published Description N/A
Bibliography

Leonard, Gertrude Simpson. Our Africa Story: An Account of the work of the Woman's Home and Foreign Mission Society at Muhlenberg Mission, Liberia, Africa. Baltimore: General Literature Committee, Lutheran Church, 1918.

Artifact History

Credit Line/Dedication Gift of Edwin Hadley in Memory of Grover C. Leonard, Gertrude Simpson Leonard, Frances Hadley
Reproduction no

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