- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Rectangular wooden frame, part of a broken Japanese reliquary. Light brown, with greenish grey patches. Four rectangular sunken notches cut into the wood. For fragments of reliquary see [1985.53.586 .1 - .47] [EH [OPS Move] 27/4/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Japanese
- Person
- Field collector Walter Leo Hildburgh
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1901-1907
- Date collected
- 1901 - 1907
- Acquisition information
- Loaned: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 2 mm, Width: max 10 mm, Length: max 46 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.53.586.15
Search terms: Religion, Amulet, Religious Object
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