M0014544: Traditional healer's bag made of jackal skin with head still attached, Uganda

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Bag from Ankole, Uganda. It was presented to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum by the Reverend J.Roscoe in 1920 and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R5440/1936). It is not held by Wellcome Collection. The item was exhibited in the Museum's exhibition "Medicine of the Aboriginal Peoples in the British Commonwealth" held in 1952.

M0014544: Traditional healer's bag made of jackal skin with head still attached, Uganda

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