IDNO

P.145408.RDG

Description

Documentary photograph of an "Ivory crescent, Nubia." [Ridgeway's caption, c. 1908]

Place

NE Africa; Sudan; Northern Sudan; Nubia

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Currelly, C. P. [Object Collector]; Ridgeway, William

Date

Collection Name

Ridgeway Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.145342.RDG - P.145364.RDG were located in a white archive sleeve, now numbered C1000/, and transferred from MAA Paper Archives, W10/2/4, by Jos Dudding, 13/12/2019.

Publication: Ridgeway, William. “The Origin of the Turkish Crescent.” The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 38, 1908, pp. 241–258.
Plate XXI, fig. 18, and captioned: "Ivory crescent, Nubia."
On p.246: "I have in my possession (given to me by my friend. Mr. C. T. Currelly, Director of the Oriental Museum at Toronto) an amulet (Fig. 18) from Nubia consisting of a lunate section of an elephant's tusk covered with sixty incised circles; it is attached to a leather necklace on which are four of the ordinary leather cases used by Moslems for containing pieces of the Koran. As the necklace was thus plainly amuletic, we may infer that the ivory crescent with the incised circles was also a talisman. [JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2843299, JD 13/12/2019]