Leather covered cardboard amulet case suspended from thong

Made:: 1880-1930 in Sudan

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Leather covered cardboard amulet case suspended from thong, triangular flap, triangular designs on obverse outlined with black stain, Sudanese, 1880-1930

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A658411

Materials:: leather and cardboard

Measurements:: length 86 mm
width 86 mm
thickness 10 mm
thong, doubled: length 195 mm

type:: amulet case

credit:: Glendining

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Leather covered cardboard amulet case suspended from thong

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