Prayer Beads
48-29-212
From: India
Curatorial Section: Asian
| Object Number | 48-29-212 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Indian | Islamic |
| Provenience | India |
| Section | Asian |
| Materials | Wood |
| Description | Used by a Muhammadan priest (imam). Of a lightcolored wood, blackened. Rounded and cup-shaped (2) beads; ends of cord joined by a large elongated bead and a blue glass bead, and tasselled with lavendar-colored threads. Ninety-six round beads, two cup-shaped, one elongated. (Cf. 48-29-211 and 213). |
| Credit Line | Gift of Presbyterian Board of Missions, 1948 |
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