Fetish
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Oct 1896
name: label: Donor Name
content: Rev. D W. Snyder
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "WOOD. CARVED HEAD, ORNAMENTED BODY. PROBABLY A DIVINATION FETISH (RUBBING BLOCK)--SEE TORDAY AND JOYCE, NOTES ETHNOGRAPHIQUE... LES BUSHONGO FIG. 101A. "A FETISH CALLED BY THE WITCH DOCTOR 'LUBUKA' MEANING KNOWLEDGE. THE DOCTOR SAYS WHEN HE RUBS IT HOLDING HIS HEAD AGAINST THE PATIENT'S HEART THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE FETISH ENTERS INTO HIS HEART, THEREFORE HE IS ABLE TO DIAGNOSE ALL CASES."--ACC. PAPERS."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Sep 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kasai River, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Not Certain) / Angola (Not Certain), Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kete
label: Culture
content: (Ba Kete)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 031155
label: USNM Number
content: E175903-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fetish
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 36 cm