- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, toucan beak with a string of cream and red beads attached. It is a hollow beak, yellow and dark brown in colour, with a serrated edge. [ILL [OPS move] 5/10/2017]
- Long description
- Amulet, toucan beak with a string of cream and red beads attached. It is a hollow beak, yellow and dark brown in colour, with a serrated edge. The tip curves downwards slightly and there is a string of beads. Six beads are a shade of cream, one is red with a black spot, possibly and Abrus seed. [ILL [OPS move] 5/10/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1921
- Date collected
- By 1921
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Plant Seed, Material Bird Beak, Material Abrus Precatorius Seed Plant, Process Strung
- Dimensions
- Width: max 22 mm, Length: max 104 mm, Height: max 27 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.49.153
1985.49.153
Amulet, toucan beak with a string of cream and red beads attached. It is a hollow beak, yellow and dark brown in colour, with a serrated edge. [ILL [OPS move] 5/10/2017]
1985.49.153
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