- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, roughly triangular dark brown stone with patches of lighter brown. For 'warram' (swellings, tumours) in men and women. [JC [OPS] 03/03/2017]
- 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 Stone
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 11 mm, Width: max 30 mm, Length: max 50 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.404 Other numbers: A 107359 R 38324 222
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