- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- A piece of plant stalk bent at a right angle. Probably an amulet. [RH [OPS move] 13/9/2017]
- Cultural groups
- Italian
- Person
- Field collector Walter Leo Hildburgh
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1985
- Date collected
- By 1985
- Acquisition information
- Loaned: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Plant Fibre, Process Bent
- Dimensions
- Width: max 40 mm, Depth: max 7 mm, Length: max 78 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.50.21
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