- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, made from a smooth, rectangular shaped piece of slate, pierced at one end with a hole. One corner of the rectangle is missing. Used by a women who is ill 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 Slate Stone
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 9 mm, Width: max 38 mm, Length: max 104 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1430 Other numbers: A 17001? A 170001 R 13752 1936 1
1985.54.1430
Amulet, made from a smooth, rectangular shaped piece of slate, pierced at one end with a hole. One corner of the rectangle is missing. Used by a women who is ill after confinement. [CW [OPS Move Project] 13/02/2017]
1985.54.1430
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