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AF2868

From: Sudan | Nubia

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number AF2868
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Sudan | Nubia
Date Made Late 19th century CE
Section African
Materials Leather
Description

Hide. Round, hemispherical boss. 12 holes around rim. Label: "Taken in Loker (?), Soudan, March 1891". See AF 2159; and for holes around rim cf. AF 2869, 2870.

Height 11 cm
Length 55 cm
Width 55 cm
Credit Line Purchased from W. O. Oldman, 1912
Other Number 25068 - Dealer's Number

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