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. E: Cowrie shells.
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)
14 Cowrie shells on a twisted fibre strand. One cowrie shell is detached but present.
Event Date 7/4/2022
Author: Sam Daisley