• Museum Artifact
    Bible
    Gifts from Heads of Stateca. 1760

    Bible with a leather cover and vellum pages. Bible is written in Ge'ez, the liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and the medium of traditional Ethiopian learning and scholarship.

  • Museum Artifact
    Filigree Bowl
    Gifts from Heads of Stateca. 1960

    Footed bowl decorated with eighteen pierced and filigreed lobes of silver. Applied to the rim are gold filigree flowers and a gold crest of His Imperial Majesty.

  • Museum Artifact
    Lion of Judah Statuette
    Gifts from Heads of Stateca. 1960

    Silver statue of a striding lion wearing a gold crown. The lion is mounted on a silver base. The surface of the statue has casing lines in block pattern to give the illusion that the statue is made of stone. The Lion's haunches are raised from the surface of the body to suggest muscles. The mane of lion is comprised of shingled spikes of silver. Th...

  • Folder
    Ethiopia: General, 1961
    Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.1961: 21 January-17 October, undated

    This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning Ethiopia. Materials pertain to the new Ethiopian Ambassador to the United States Ato Berhanu Dinke and a gift of a Bible with an Amharic translation to President Kennedy from Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie I. This folder c...

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    AR6379-A. President John F. Kennedy Meets with Ambassador of Ethiopia Mikael Imru
    White House Photographs27 February 1961

    President John F. Kennedy meets with Ethiopia Ambassador to the United States Mikael Imru in the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.

  • Folder
    Ethiopia: Security, 1961-1963
    Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.4 March 1961-2 October 1963, undated

    This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning Ethiopia. Materials pertain to a call on President Kennedy by an Ethiopian Parliamentary delegation and correspondence to President Kennedy from Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie I. Also included in this folder is a memorandum...

  • Folder
    Addis Ababa Plan: Ethiopia Background Material, 3 May 1961-7 September 1961 and undated
    Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Harris Wofford1961: 3 May-7 September, undated
  • Photograph Folder
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    KN-C17861. President John F. Kennedy with Ambassador of Ethiopia, Berhanu Dinke
    White House Photographs23 May 1961

    President John F. Kennedy meets with the Ambassador of Ethiopia, Berhanu Dinke. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.

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    KN-C17862. President John F. Kennedy with Ambassador of Ethiopia, Berhanu Dinke
    White House Photographs23 May 1961

    President John F. Kennedy meets with the Ambassador of Ethiopia, Berhanu Dinke. Unidentified men stand in background. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.

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