- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, made from a green pellet. Used by young children to relieve a sore mouth. [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 1929
- Date collected
- 1929
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 5 mm, Width: max 7 mm, Length: max 18 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1410 Other numbers: A 107133 R 37415 135
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