- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, a dried strip of "bus", durra stalk. light in colour. Passed around the head to cure illness. [JC [OPS] 07/03/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Grass Fibre Plant, Process Dried
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 1 mm, Width: max 17 mm, Length: max 68 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.774 Other numbers: A 109554 16
1985.54.774
Amulet, a dried strip of "bus", durra stalk. light in colour. Passed around the head to cure illness. [JC [OPS] 07/03/2017]
1985.54.774
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