- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, roughly rectangular, dark grey stone, to cure weakness after a severe illness. [JC [OPS Move] 28/02/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date
- Date collected
- 1929
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 13 mm, Width: max 31 mm, Length: max 44 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.57 Other numbers: A 108434 R 37255 676
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