Object Number | 29-236-5 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Algeria | Touggourt |
Culture Area | North Africa |
Date Made | 1860-1899 |
Section | African |
Materials | Ivory |
Iconography | Hand |
Description | Small ivory hand. Fingers spread slightly apart and middle and ring fingers are bent at the outermost knuckle. Lace cuff at wrist. Hole drilled into wrist at base of hand suggests that hand is a piece to larger figure. Per Sommerville: Hand of Fatima, Tougourt (Algeria) |
Length | 4.5 cm |
Width | 3 cm |
Thickness | 0.5 cm |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | 5.S - Sommerville Number | 29-221-5 - Found in Collection Number |
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