amulet
- Museum number
- Af1948,25.18
- Description
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Register 1948:
Composite amulet, of a cloth-covered cylinder in red and blue, with four paper Qu'ranic (Koranic) texts thereon; made with paper, raw food?, cowrie shells, gobbets, string and a plaited cloth lanyard with tip of a black horn sticking out of one end.
- Production date
- 1887-1891 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 24.20 centimetres
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Width: 7.50 centimetres
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Depth: 6.70 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1980 Sept., London, BM, Asante: Kingdom of Gold
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: Qur'an
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Associated Title: Koran
- Acquisition date
- 1948
- Acquisition notes
- Af1948,25.1 to 41 is the bequest of Mrs Austin Freeman, and consists of the main part of the collection of Richard Austin Freeman (qv) which he collected during his years as a doctor in Ghana 1887-91. (For the rest of the collection see her earlier gift Af1945,11.1 to 41). All the objects must date from these years as he never returned to Africa. Some are described in his book of 1898.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1948,25.18