- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, boar tusk, with an incised silver mount, and a loop for suspension. [ACA 15/03/2012]
- 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 Boar Tooth Animal, Material Silver Metal, Process Incised
- Dimensions
- Height: max 75 mm, Width: max 24 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.52.450 Other numbers: 872 2162 R 14555/ 1936
Search terms: Religion, Animalia, Ornament, Amulet, Animal Part, Pendant, Neck Ornament
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