Ketab (healing scroll)

Unidentified Eritrean maker

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18th or 19th century

Pigments on vellum

Overall: 88 9/16 × 4 1/2 in. (225 × 11.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Joel Whiting

165.33.15632

Geography

Place Made: Asmara, Eritrea, Eastern Africa, Africa

Period

18-19th century

Object Name

Artifact

Research Area

Africa

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by Joel Whiting, Asmara, Eritrea (formerly Ethiopia), early 1960's; given to present collection, 1965.

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