- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet. Five brown pellets, triangular pyramid shaped, for pain in the head. [PR [OPS] 08/03/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date
- Date collected
- 1930
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Dimensions
- Height: max 9 mm one pellet, Width: max 11 mm one pellet, Length: max 11 mm one pellet
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.793 Other numbers: A 110721 3
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