Ketab (healing scroll)

Unidentified Eritrean maker

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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

Course History

History 5.08, African and African American Studies 19.01, Africa and the World, Robby Zeinstra, Fall 2023

History 5.08, African and African American Studies 19.01, Africa and the World, Robby Zeinstra, Fall 2023

History 69.01, African and African American Studies 53.01, Religion 74.17, Islam in African, Robby Zeinstra III, Spring 2024

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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