- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet. Three bright blue glass beads, one chipped and one cracked. They are stored together, strung on red thread. [MOBB [OPS move] 7/3/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date
- Date collected
- 1930
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Glass, Material Bead, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 10 mm, Width: max 18 mm, Length: max 17 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.699 Other numbers: A 110043 82
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