- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, of dentalium shell. Used against the Evil Eye. [CW [OPS move] 21/9/2017]
- 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 Shell
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 4 mm, Length: max 29 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.50.695
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