Witch Switch
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Jun 1891
name: label: Donor Name
content: Cincinnati Museum Association
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "[in referrence to Loango listed as locality] *Information incorrectly copied from accession records/ledger. Old Calabar River is in Nigeria. -J. Rubinstein (5/85)" "From remarks prepared by Cin. Mus. Ass'n.: "When journeying in a canoe on the old Calabar River a native always stands in the bow, and swings one of these switches over the surface of the water to drive away evil spirit.""
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Dec 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Calabar River, Nigeria, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 024469
label: USNM Number
content: E152632-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Switch
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 79 cm