Shells

1913

National Museums of Kenya
Nairobi, Kenya

The shells are used by the medicine man by waving them over a patient seven times each time asking the sickness to leave the patients and go into the sea.

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Title: Shells
Date Created: 1913
Location: Kenya
Rights: National Museums of Kenya
Medium: Shell
Photographer: GibsPhotography
Community: Kamba
Collection Date: 1969-04-19
Collected By: Peter Nzuki

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