- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, made from pale orange coloured stone. Rounded in shape tapering towards one end. The surface is smooth with darker coloured veins. Used to cure pains after confinement. [CW [OPS Move Project] 13/02/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1933
- Date collected
- 1933
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 21 mm, Width: max 24 mm, Length: max 38 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1408 Other numbers: A 170064 R 13767 / 1936 64
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