- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, stone for pain in the arms. Grey in colour, with brown patches on surface. [EH [OPS move] 7/3/2017]
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1929
- Date collected
- 1929
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 16 mm, Width: max 21 mm, Length: max 21 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.860 Other numbers: A 107946 R 37049 176
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