Pitt Rivers Museum Anthropology and World Archaology

 

Africa

 

Lion's claw

East Africa

 

Collected by William Ernest Taylor of the Church Missionary Society

Purchased by the Museum in 1927

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Body ornaments made from animal parts have been worn in many cultures as charms or amulets. These lion’s claws from east Africa, which have been mounted on a chain, are an example of an amulet designed to protect the wearer. They were collected in east Africa in the 1880s.

View database record 1927.84.59