- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, made from semi-transparent amber coloured stone. Used by men to cure swollen veins in the neck. [CW [OPS Move] 02/03/2017]
- 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
- Height: max 13 mm, Width: max 16 mm, Length: max 16 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.112 Other numbers: A 108388 R 36793 629
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