- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, made from reddish brown stone. Worn by a girl to help obtain a husband. [CW [OPS Move] 01/03/2017
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1929
- Date collected
- 1929
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 6 mm, Width: max 14 mm, Length: max 16 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.98 Other numbers: A 108482 R 36690 725
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