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)
- Industrial Revolution ends (1840)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- British Raj (1858)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) begins (1859)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Irish Potato Famine (1845)