Amulet

Unidentified maker (Sudan)

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collected in the 1930s

Sulfur and leather

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of W. Wedgwood Bowen

40.7.7103

Geography

Place Made: Omdurman, Sudan, Eastern Africa, Africa

Period

20th century

Object Name

Personal Symbol: Amulet

Research Area

Africa

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by W. Wedgwood Bowen (1899-1987), Director of the Dartmouth College Museum, probably in the 1930's; given to present collection, 1940.

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