- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet. Conch shell. Cream in colour, with a spiral of protruding nodules on the top side, some of which are missing the tips of their points. [EH [OPS Move] 14/3/2017]
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1931
- Date collected
- 1931
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Shell, Material Conch Shell
- Dimensions
- Height: max 38 mm, Width: max 41 mm, Length: max 58 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1181 Other numbers: A 110709 719
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