M0003066: Wooden effigy figure

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Photograph of carved wooden effigy on pedestal with medicine bags hung around the neck from a western region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, possibly the Kasai or Mayombe regions. The object depicted was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in May 1936 [Accession No. R36304; R2402/1936] but is not held by Wellcome Collection.

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M0003066: Wooden effigy figure

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