Context (Other owners)
Unsigned note (probably from catalogue card) reads: 'The whole belonged to a medicine man apparently a kind of curer, in the Sokoto area, N. E. of the Niger and S. W. of Kano.'
Event Date
Author: Louise Puckett

Context (Field collection)
Collected 1902-3.
Event Date 1902
Author: Louise Puckett

Description (Physical description)
Accession register for 1948.270 A-C: 'Leather "ju-ju" coat, cotton belt & strip of black cotton'.
Event Date 1948
Author: Louise Puckett

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1948.270 A-C: 'A: Ju-Ju coat of leather from the edges of which hang numerous leather thongs carrying cowrie shells, gourds, bits of tin, an iron sickle, beads and other junk.
B: Cotton belt made up of a patchwork of white, blue and red pieces with some crude embroidery in red, green and orange. Numerous cowrie shells are sewn onto edges and tassels which hang from edges. This probably belongs to A.
C: Strips of black cotton, with leather thongs attached to ends leaving cowrie shells and beads. C probably belongs to same outfit as A and B.'
The whole belonged to a medicine man apparently a kind of curer, in the Sokoto area, N.E of the Niger and S.W of Kano. Collected 1902-3.
Event Date 3/10/2000
Author: Louise Puckett

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1948.270 A-C by T.Cadbury: 'A is a naturally-shaped animal hide with over hundred leather strips attached around three of its edges, each of which has objects attached. In addition to the objects mentioned above, these include bells, feathers and metal rings. C also has a small copper alloy (brass?) knife attached.'
Event Date 20/7/2005
Author: Louise Puckett

Description (Physical description)
The cotton belt (B) is made up of a patchwork of white, blue and red patches with red embroidery, green and orange. Numerous cowrie shells are sewn onto edges and tassels which hang from edges. This probably belongs to (A).
Event Date 13/11/2020
Author: Louise Puckett