Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1935.774 A-H: 'Personal adornment of a practitioner of black magic. Wasukuma tribe: locality Kigoku, Maswa District, Tanganyika Terr. C: 7 triangular ornaments, one made of shell, the others of white china; attached is an antelope horn filled with black material, in which 4 white beads are set.
Donor's notes: 'The personal adornments of a practitioner of black magic, comprising a very full range of the oldest type of trade beads, now rare and highly prized. The white disc-shaped beads are of ostrich-egg shell. It will be noted that the string of white triangular china ornaments contains an example of the prototype, a piece of shell, now extremely rare. The antelope horn filled with a black substance with four white beads imbedded therein is connected with magical practices'.'

Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Accession register for 1935.774 [A-H]: 'Personal adornments of witch doctor'
Event Date 1935
Author: Sam Daisley

Description (Physical description)
Personal adornment of a healer. Six triangular made of white china and decorated with concentric arches, interspersed with discs possibly made of coconut shell; one smaller triangle of shell. Antelope horn, with four small white beads set into the terminal. All are strung onto a fibre cord.
Event Date 7/4/2022
Author: Sam Daisley