- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet. Animal skin with hair attached. Roughly rectangular in shape. The hair is brown and white in colour. [EH [OPS move] 6/3/2017]
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Animal Hide Skin, Material Animal Hair
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 15 mm, Width: max 18 mm, Length: max 61 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.254 Other numbers: A 108507 R 36726 750
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