- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, perforated cowrie shell. [RB 02/03/2012]
- Geographical reference
- 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 Cowrie Shell, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Length x Width: max 20 x 15 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.52.286 Other numbers: 520 300487 A 668392
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