Case, amuletic, leather
- maker:
- Hausa people
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Case, amuletic, leather, reputedly containing extracts from the Koran to avert the "Evil Eye", damaged, incomplete, Hausa, maker, Cameroun(?) or Central African Empire(?), 1890-1930
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A658276
- Materials:
- leather
- Measurements:
-
length 48 mm
width 40 mm
thickness 18 mm
sling: length 45 mm
- type:
- amulet case
- credit:
- Sotheby's