- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, a crimson ribbon, which no longer unfolds as it has become adhered to a painted inscription and an image of the Virgin Mary in the centre. [RB 06/06/2012]
- Geographical reference
- La Paz Department Copacabana
- 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 Ribbon Textile, Material Pigment, Process Painted, Process Inscribed
- Dimensions
- Length x Width: max 910 x 28 mm approx
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.52.1727 Other numbers: 3648
Search terms: Religion, Textile, Writing, Figure, Amulet, Religious Object, Inscription
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