- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, animal tooth perforated at one end and bound with a band of plaited cane. [El.B 25/05/2012]
- 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 Tooth, Material Cane Plant, Process Perforated, Process Plaited, Process Bound
- Dimensions
- Width: max 24 mm, Length: max 71 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.52.1585 Other numbers: 3346 2174 R 14453/ 1936
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