- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet. One of two cowrie shells. Cream coloured and has a faint grey line across the dome of the shell. The second cowrie shell is [1985.54.391 .2]. [MOBB [OPS Move Project] 06/03/2017]
- 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 Cowrie Shell
- Dimensions
- Height: max 12 mm, Width: max 18 mm, Length: max 24 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.391.1 Other numbers: A 107235 R 38526 91
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