Sudanese slit drum
19th century · Resource
A wooden slit drum carved as a bush calf, later re-decorated under Mahdist rule and captured by Kitchener at Omdurman. It traces shifting religious and imperial power in 19th-century Sudan.
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Around 1850
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Crimean War (1853)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- British Raj (1858)