- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, double sided pendant with religious figures painted on paper. With glass fronting and a white metal mount, perforated 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 White Metal, Material Glass, Material Paper Plant, Material Pigment, Process Painted, Process Perforated, Process Glazed
- Dimensions
- Height: max 37 mm, Width: max 32 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.52.477 Other numbers: 899
Search terms: Religion, Ornament, Figure, Amulet, Pendant, Neck Ornament
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