- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, shaped, incised piece of slate worn on a breast from which milk will not come.
- Geographical reference
- 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 Slate Stone, Process Incised
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 2 mm, Width: max 15 mm, Length: max 46 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.871 Other numbers: A 107945 R 37089 175
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