- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, heart shaped textile pendant, with an embroidered floral design, edged with metal and green thread, with a pink cord loop for suspension. [RB 22/05/2012]
- 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 Textile, Material Ribbon Textile, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Yarn Plant, Material Metal, Process Embroidered
- Dimensions
- Length x Width: max 118 x 58 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.52.1472 Other numbers: 3005
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