- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet consisting of a triangular wire frame threaded with multicoloured seed beads, with three copper alloy coins suspended from the base. [SM 09/03/2011]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Edward Lovett
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1933
- Date collected
- By 1933
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Copper Alloy Metal, Material Metal Wire, Material Glass, Material Pigment, Material Iron Metal, Process Bent, Process Wound, Process Drawn, Process Stamped, Process Strung, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Width: max 35 mm, Length: max 64 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.51.590 Other numbers: R 3737/ 1937 A 162667 AM C lot 215
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