Lemon pierced with nails.

Collection type: Object
Description: Lemon pierced with nails.
Long description: Lemon (now shrunken and blackened) pierced with large nails which are interlaced with string. (Heather Richardson 14/06/2001) [JFK 20/1/2009]
Geographical reference: Italy
Europe > Southern Europe > Italy; Napoli Naples
Cultural groups: Italian
Person: Field collector Eustace Neville-Rolfe; PRM source Eustace Neville-Rolfe; PRM source Veronica Berry
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1891
Date collected: 1891
Acquisition information: Loaned: 09/1892 Donated: 02/1967
Materials and processes: Material Metal, Material Plant Fruit, Material Yarn, Material String
Dimensions: Length: max 105 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1892.64.1
Associated publications: Illustrated in colour on page 37 of 'Death Charm', by Marina Warner, in Magic Show, by Jonathan Allen and Sally O'Reilly (London: Hayward Publishing, 2009), pp. 36-7. Caption (same page) reads: 'Fattura della morte (Death Charm), c. 1891'. Warner discusses the object in relation to the other objects on display in what she calls the 'magic and superstition' section of the Museum. (Photocopy in RDF.) [JC 23 5 2013]

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