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1998.26.15.2

Roll of parchment incribed in Amharic and painted with figures. Apparently, such objects were worn as charms/amulets, either on the person or attached to horse-trappings.

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1998.26.15.2

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Collection type
Object
Description
Roll of parchment incribed in Amharic and painted with figures. Apparently, such objects were worn as charms/amulets, either on the person or attached to horse-trappings.
Geographical reference
Ethiopia
Africa > Eastern Africa > Ethiopia
Person
Field collector Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
PRM source Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
PRM source Alex Maitland
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1998
Date collected
By 1998
Acquisition information
Donated: 1998
Materials and processes
Material Parchment Skin Animal, Material Ink, Material Pigment, Process Written, Process Painted, Process Inscribed, Process Stitched
Object numbers
Accession number: 1998.26.15.2
Research and responses

For a brief account of the collections donated to the PRM by Wilfred Thiesiger, see 'An Incidental Collection: Objects Donated by Wilfred Thesiger to the Pitt Rivers Museum', by Jeremy Coote, in Wilfred Thesiger in Africa, edited by Christopher Morton and Philip N. Grover (London: Harper Press, 2010), pp. 116-26. [JC 21 12 2010]

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