Additional information
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Zaramo Medicine Gourd
According to Marx L. Felix in Mwana Hiti, the Zaramo of eastern Tanzania made all of their household objects, from hunting tools to musical instruments, using indigenous materials (p. 45). Gourds such as this one were used by ritual specialists, called waganga, who “sought supernatural signs in gourds filled with oil.” These spiritual healers kept their “charms and medicines in horns and small calabashes,” which were “prominently displayed…at house entrances and near fields to ward off both human and spirit trespassers” (p. 71).
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