- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, made from thirteen crimson coloured glass beads. Used to counteract the evil effects of a broken taboo following birth. [CW [OPS Move Project] 10/02/2017]
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1930
- Date collected
- 1930
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Glass, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Length x Width: max 114 x 7 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1027 Other numbers: A 110073 112
1985.54.1027
Amulet, made from thirteen crimson coloured glass beads. Used to counteract the evil effects of a broken taboo following birth. [CW [OPS Move Project] 10/02/2017]
1985.54.1027
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