- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, human skull carved from bone, with multiple perforations including a large hole in the top of the skull. [RB 27/02/2012]
- Person
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1931
- Date collected
- By 1931
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Bone, Process Carved, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Length x Width: max 25 x 20 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.52.222 Other numbers: 414 R 15135/ 1936 2500
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