- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, a girdle, made from red wool, twisted and with a tassel at each end. [ACA 31/07/2012]
- 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 Wool Textile Animal, Process Twisted, Process Knotted
- Dimensions
- Length: max 801 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.52.2381 Other numbers: 4744
Search terms: Religion, Ornament, Amulet, Religious Object, Waist Ornament
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