Chewing stick
date: label: Collection Date
content: 1987
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Flora S. Kaplan
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Flora S. Kaplan
notes: label: Notes
content: Piece of stringy wood. The donor/collector says that the charms and organic material in this collection (E434851, and 434854-434859) were made for her by a native doctor in Benin City, to protect her and her family against evil. He wrote instructions for their use on small pieces of paper, which are in the accession file.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Apr 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Benin City, Nigeria, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Edo
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2052779
label: USNM Number
content: E434851-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Chewing stick
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 20 cm
label: Width
content: 10 cm