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Title	Neck rest
Date	1954-1989
Material Type	Headrests
Description	Wooden neckrest/headrest with a metal chain around it; metal coin with a hole is looped into chain; inscribed upon coin is "GEORGIUS SEXTUS REX ONE CENT"; origin Dodoth people of Uganda.
Dimensions	Length: 20 cm, Width: 7 cm, Height: 13 cm.
Subject	Headrests -- Africa Wood-carving -- Africa, East Dodoth (African people) Art, Ugandan Uganda -- Civilization
Geographic Region	Africa Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, East Uganda
Collector	Towles, Joseph A. Turnbull, Colin M.
Collection in Repository	Joseph A. Towles Artifact Collection
Call Number	1989.001.098a
Holding Institution	Avery Research Center at the College of Charleston
Digital Collection	Avery Research Center Artifact Collection
Rights	Digital image copyright 2009, The College of Charleston Libraries. All rights reserved. For more information contact The College of Charleston Library, Charleston, SC 29424.
Media Type	Objects

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