Wooden prayer board
- Made:
- 1801-1910
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Wooden prayer board, with crescent-shaped leather covered handle and leather tassels, board covered with paper divided into sections, and decorated with interlocking designs in polychrome, centre panel on both sides covered with Islamic script, from northern Nigeria, 1801-1910
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A37246
- Measurements:
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overall: 965 mm x 290 mm x 35 mm, 1.42 kg
- type:
- prayer boards
