Leather amulet bracelet
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Nov 2000
label: Collection Date
content: 1980
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Labelle Prussin
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Labelle Prussin
notes: label: Notes
content: Square leather amulet, with braided strips of leather threaded through the back to make a bracelet. Loop and knot closure.
label: Notes
content: The donor describes this as an "old, leather amulet bracelet (baakanwol) with a fine patina, incised linework, and a pirlal (gris-gris)." She asked for it, and it was given to her by a Fulani (Peul) herder who was wearing it in the Futa Djallon, Guinea, in 1980.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Jan 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Futa Djallon, Guinea, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fulani
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 420734
label: USNM Number
content: E431624-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bracelet
physicalDescription: label: Length - Band
content: 19 cm
label: Length - Amulet
content: 2.8 cm
label: Width - Amulet
content: 2.8 cm