- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Paper amulet, found folded up in a leather bag [1985.52.2536 .1]. A rectangular piece of paper with an Arabic inscription hand-written in black ink on it. For the other associated paper amulets see the records 1985.52.2536 .1 - .9. [ASh [OPS move] 3/2/2017]
- Long description
- Amulet, square leather bag [.1] with a cotton ribbon for suspension, containing 9 pieces of paper [.2-.9], 8 have Arabic inscriptions on them. The pieces of paper were found folded up inside the leather bag [.1]. [.2-.3, and .5] have Arabic inscriptions printed in black ink on them, and [.4] takes the form of a book with pages with Arabic text printed in black ink on them. [.6-.7] are two thin rectangular pieces of paper with Arabic text and images printed in purple ink on them. [.8] is a rectangular piece of paper with an Arabic inscription hand-written in black ink on it. [.9] is an envelope which would have contained the pieces of paper with Arabic ?prayers on them. The leather bag [.1] has a cotton textile ribbon, pale in colour with different coloured stripes, stitched to either side for suspension. The leather bag has a triangular shaped top edge with another strip of cotton ribbon stitched to it. [RB 07/08/2012]
- Cultural groups
- Tartar
- Person
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1931
- Date collected
- By 1931
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Animal Leather Skin, Material Paper Plant, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Ribbon Textile, Material Ink, Process Stitched, Process Inscribed
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.52.2536.8 Other numbers: R 15422/ 1936 A 659109
Search terms: Religion, Writing, Ornament, Bag, Amulet, Inscription, Prayer Object, Arm Ornament