Muslim charm for humans and/or animals. [CF 31/7/2002]

Collection type: Object
Description: Muslim charm for humans and/or animals. [CF 31/7/2002]
Long description: Muslim charm for humans and/or animals. A neck ornament of leather thongs attached by a loop and leather button, upon which is both a rectangular and a round leather case, supposedly with verses from the Koran stitched inside. [CF 31/7/2002]
Geographical reference
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Unknown Source
Date / Period: Date made: Before 04/1978
Date collected: By April 1978
Acquisition information: Found unentered: 04/1978 Found unentered: 07/2002
Materials and processes: Material Animal Leather Skin, Process Stitched
Dimensions: Length 124 mm rectangular case
Object numbers: Accession number: 2002.51.1
Associated publications: Published on page 87 of the exhibition catalogue 'Power and Protection: Islamic Art and the Supernatural', Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford 2016. Colour photograph with the caption catalogue number '101 - 2 Two Amulets Containing Qur'anic Excerpts. Nigerian and West Africa, 19th-20th century Leather, vegetable fibres, paper (left) 12.4cm, (right) 15.2 x 6.4 cm Pitt Rivers Museum (1980.11.1 and 2002.51.1). Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. [FB 15/11/2016]

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