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Prayer Scroll for Healing

Prayer Scroll for Healing, between 1850 and 1900

  • Ethiopian, African

Leather, ink, and pigment

  • Overall: 3 1/2 × 70 inches (8.9 × 177.8 cm)

Museum Purchase, with funds from George G. Johnson

2009.4

Department

Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas

Details

(Young Robertson Gallery, New York, New York, USA)

2009-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Ethiopian, African, Prayer Scroll for Healing, between 1850 and 1900, leather, ink, and pigment. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, with funds from George G. Johnson, 2009.4.

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