- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, made from a large cowrie shell with brown and cream spotted colouring. Used to counteract the evil effects of a broken taboo after birth. [SB [OPS Move Project] 14/03/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1929
- Date collected
- 1929
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Shell, Material Cowrie Shell
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 34 mm, Width: max 45 mm, Length: max 70 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1447 Other numbers: A 108532 R 36282 22
1985.54.1447
Amulet, made from a large cowrie shell with brown and cream spotted colouring. Used to counteract the evil effects of a broken taboo after birth. [SB [OPS Move Project] 14/03/2017]
1985.54.1447
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