- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet. Tooth, possibly an animal tooth with roots attached to the base. [IL [OPS Move Project] 13/03/2017]
- 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 Tooth, Material Animal Ivory Tooth
- Dimensions
- Height: max 27 mm, Depth: max 24 mm, Width: max 26 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1128 Other numbers: A 110562 603
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