Photo at the Gilder Center, during a visit with Anishinabe belongings at the American Museum of Natural History, NYC. LT to RT: Willow Lawson (White Earth Band of Ojibwe/ AMNH), Tee Duke (Niisaachewan Anishinaabe Nation (Treaty 3)/ UTM), Melissa…

Frontispiece at Sūrat al-Ḥamd (Q. 1), fols 1v-2r. c. 1750-1850. Copyist ʿAbd al-Karīm b. ʿUmar al-Nawfalī, 4 Muḥarram1245/ 28 June 1829, Faza, Pate Island (Kenya). Ink on laid paper. AS:008. Image courtesy of Imam Nour Al Din Al Salimi…

A fragment of Cao Yuanzhong’s Avalokiteśvara woodblock print in which the image block is printed at centre, with roughly symmetrical margins of 5–6 cm around each edge – one of them created by the addition of a vertical strip of reused paper…

Fowler Quran: Sura āl-Imran (Q. 3), verses 17. fols 35v-36r. c. 1750-1850. Siyu(?), Pate Island (Kenya). Scribe unknown. Ink on laid paper. Image courtesy of the Fowler Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles.

Qur’an from Siyu, Kenya. Fowler Museum, UCLA.

Folk repairs to a broken wooden cover of an Ethiopian Life of Abune Gebre Menfes Qidus.