Full title reads: “Hoodoo Fortunes“.
British Museum, London.
Artefacts from all over world that are thought to have magical or sacred properties.
Various C/Us of objects, some are held or demonstrated by a woman. Objects are; drums from Lapland (Scandinavia), Eskimo masks, human bone aprons, cloaks and hats from Tibet, carved birds from Borneo (Indonesia), fortune telling carved bones and gourd from Nyassa and Mashonaland (Mozambique and Zimbabwe, Africa), various dried trinkets used as dice, a wooden dog from Belgian Congo, various Native American (Red Indian) weather charms and totem poles, thunderbird model from Queen Charlotte Isles, more African statuettes of Gods, polishes lava mirror from Aztec culture (South America).
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