- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, a strip of white cotton ribbon. [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 Cotton Seed Fibre Yarn Plant, Process Woven
- Dimensions
- Length: max 632 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.52.2394 Other numbers: 4772
Search terms: Religion, Textile, Amulet, Religious Object
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