- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet; grey stone, roughly triangular in shape. Used to cure pain in the shin bone. [SB [OPS move] 23/08/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date
- Date collected
- 1929
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 11 mm, Width: max 21 mm, Length: max 26 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.544 Other numbers: A 108186 R 36664 419
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