- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, silk heart painted with flowers on one side and a bleeding heart, a cross and a ladder on the other. [El.B 31/05/2012]
- 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 Silk Textile Animal, Material Pigment, Process Painted
- Dimensions
- Width: max 43 mm, Length: max 45 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.52.1626 Other numbers: 3438
Search terms: Religion, Amulet, Religious Object
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