- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, complete walnut shell, comprised of two sections. [ACA 09/08/2012]
- 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 Plant Nut-shell
- Dimensions
- Height: max 40 mm, Width: max 37 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.52.2544 Other numbers: R 15417/ 1936
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