- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Charm against illness made from vulture bone.
- Cultural groups
- Tama
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1936
- Date collected
- 1934 - 1936
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1954
- Materials and processes
- Material Bird Bone, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Length: max 34 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1954.5.141 Other numbers: 37D.196
Search terms: Ornament, Religion, Children and Childcare, Medicine, Amulet
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