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A Gift from a Sheikh, Egypt, 1850
Display No. 40
This wooden headrest was a gift to Nightingale from an Arab sheikh who she met in Egypt. The Sheikh was impressed by her courage at travelling down the Nile in a small boat.
![Head-rest given to Florence Nightingale by a sheikh at the first Nile cataract, January 1850 (wood) head rest](https://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/321938-scaled-e1581604360518.jpg)
Wooden headrest. Florence Nightingale Museum Collection
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