Case, amuletic, leather

Made:
1890-1930 in Cameroon
maker:
Hausa people
Case, amuletic, leather

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Case, amuletic, leather
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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
type:
amulet case
credit:
Sotheby's