Koranic Prayer Board
date: label: Accession Date
content: 11 Oct 1994
label: Collection Date
content: Apr 1970
name: label: Collector
content: Ruth S. Barnes
label: Donor Name
content: Ruth S. Barnes
notes: label: Notes
content: RECTANGULAR WOODEN BOARD W/ UNEVEN HEIGHT. TOP HAS A SMALL TAB OR HANDLE, BOTTOM IS UNEVEN. ENTIRE SURFACE COVERED W/ ROWS OF ARABIC WRITING IN CHARCOAL WIDTHWISE & ON BOTH SIDES EXCEPT FOR BLANK SPACE 7 CM FROM BOTTOM. MAJOR CRACK W/ LOSSES RUNNING LENGTHWISE. ONE SIDE HAS AFFIXED PAPER LABEL AT BOTTOM "LAWH - RAQUILE OMAR GUDLE, SOMALIA APRIL '70, PRAYER BOARD USED BY CHILDREN FOR LEARNING KORAN." DONOR HAD APPLIED A FIXATIVE TO THE CHARCOAL. ACCORDING TO DR. MARY JO ARNOLDI, CURATOR OF AFRICAN ETHNOLOGY, NMNH, THESE RE-USABLE BOARDS ARE COMMON THROUGHOUT ISLAMIC AFRICA AND ARE USED BY CHILDREN FOR WRITING PRAYERS IN KORANIC SCHOOLS. SEE "SOMALIA IN WORD & IMAGE" (UNIVERSITY OF INDIANA PRESS, 1986).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Nov 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Mogadishu, Somalia, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Somali
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 400217
label: USNM Number
content: E427920-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Prayer Board
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 116.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 13.3 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 3.5 cm