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Finger Ring

Object Number:48-29-110
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Islamic
Provenience: Egypt
Section:African
Materials:Brass
Outside Diameter:2.8 cm
Credit Line:Gift of Presbyterian Board of Missions, 1948

Description

Open at ends; end facated. Worn by Egyptian women on the middle finger to ward off the ginn of the Sudan.

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