- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, cowrie shell. [El.B 20/07/2012]
- 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 Cowrie Shell
- Dimensions
- Width: max 10 mm, Length: max 16 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.52.2426 Other numbers: 4899 A 658390
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