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Healing scroll (tälsäm or yä branna ketab)

Arts of Africa

CULTURE Amhara
MEDIUM Leather, pigment
  • Place Made: Ethiopia
  • DATES late 19th or early 20th century
    DIMENSIONS 69 x 3 3/4 in. (17.5 x 9.5 cm)
    COLLECTIONS Arts of Africa
    ACCESSION NUMBER 88.192.16
    CREDIT LINE Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin H. Williams
    PROVENANCE Prior to 1981, provenance not yet documented; between 1961 and 1981, acquired by Franklin Hall Williams and Shirley Broyard Williams of New York, NY; 1988, gift of Franklin Hall Williams and Shirley Broyard Williams to the Brooklyn Museum.
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