- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet. Stone, brown and black in colour. The stone is irregular in shape, and the surface is scratched in several places. [EH [OPS Move] 10/3/2017]
- 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 22 mm, Width: max 25 mm, Length: max 32 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1070 Other numbers: A 110351 391
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