Ketab (healing scroll)
Unidentified Eritrean maker
18th or 19th century
Pigments on vellum
Overall: 3 3/4 × 66 15/16 in. (9.5 × 170 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Joel Whiting
165.33.15630
Geography
Place Made: Asmara, Eritrea, Eastern Africa, Africa
Period
18th-19th century
Object Name
Artifact
Research Area
Africa
Not on view
Exhibition History
Anthropology of Religion, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 48, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 30-May 2, 2004.
Provenance
Collected by Joel Whiting, Asmara, Eritrea (formerly Ethiopia), early 1960's; given to present collection, 1965.
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