- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet. Shell. Light brown in colour, with spikes along sides. [PR [OPS] 13/03/2017]
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date
- Date collected
- 1930
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Shell
- Dimensions
- Height: max 30 mm, Length x Width: max 64 x 35 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.659 Other numbers: A 110033 72
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