- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, made from speckled black stone. Used by women to drive sad and worrying thoughts away. [CW [OPS Move Project] 10/02/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1931
- Date collected
- 1931
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 7 mm, Width: max 14 mm, Length: max 35 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.996 Other numbers: A 110689 698
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