- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, pendant in the shape of a hunchback figure wearing a tailcoat, cast in copper alloy metal, and with a loop for suspension. [RB 17/05/2012]
- 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 Copper Alloy Metal, Process Cast
- Dimensions
- Length x Width: max 33 x 10 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.52.1377 Other numbers: 2827 R 14417/ 1936
Search terms: Religion, Figure, Ornament, Amulet, Pendant, Neck Ornament
Further items to explore
1985.52.2800Amulet. Part sheet of printed images of the Holy Face. Probably used to make scapulars, souvenirs and prayer cards for sale. [MdeA 26/07/2012]1985.52.2800
1985.54.1838Amulet; stone, beige in colour and rectangular in shape. One end is elongated to a point. Used for pain in the foot and ankle. [ASh [OPS move] 13/09/2017]1985.54.1838
1985.49.259Amulet, a piece of obsidian carved in the form of a face with deeply carved eyes resembling a skull, wearing a serrated headdress. Partially transversely perforated. [EH [OPS move] 2/11/2017]1985.49.259
1985.51.372?Stone, used as an amulet. [SM 17/02/2011]1985.51.372
1968.13.480Amulet in the shape of a shoe, made of silver. [El.B 28/10/2008]1968.13.480
1985.52.1416Amulet, silver pendant of the moon, with a smiling face on one side and a face with a down-turned mouth on the other, with a loop for suspension. [ACA 21/05/2012]1985.52.1416
1992.8.3.179Playing card, eight of diamonds. Purple coloured reverse with gold border and floral and foliate designs in pink, green and gold. For the other playing cards in this incomplete set of 49, see [1992.8.3 .134 - 178] and [1992.8.3 .180 - 185]. [CW [OPS Move] 24/3/2017]1992.8.3.179
1884.136.1.481Ceramic sherd1884.136.1.481