- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, consisting of a strip of badger skin and hair. [RH [OPS move] 14/9/2017]
- Cultural groups
- Italian
- Person
- Field collector Walter Leo Hildburgh
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1906
- Date collected
- 1906
- Acquisition information
- Loaned: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Animal Skin, Material Animal Hair
- Dimensions
- Height: max 70 mm, Width: max 135 mm, Depth: max 30 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.50.604
Search terms: Animalia, Religion, Animal Gear, Ornament, Amulet, Animal Part, Animal Harness
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