- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, made from brown coloured stone, highly polished on one side. Used to cure pimples on the tongue. [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 18 mm, Width: max 25 mm, Length: max 42 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1416 Other numbers: A 170154 R 13591/1936 153
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