- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, made from a brown speckled shell. The shell has a hole towards one edge and has ridges on the outside and a smooth pearlescent inside. Used by women as cure for an irritable rash. [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 1933
- Date collected
- 1933
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Shell
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 23 mm, Width: max 75 mm, Length: max 84 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1450 Other numbers: A 170002 R 13744 1936 2
1985.54.1450
Amulet, made from a brown speckled shell. The shell has a hole towards one edge and has ridges on the outside and a smooth pearlescent inside. Used by women as cure for an irritable rash. [SB [OPS Move Project] 14/03/2017]
1985.54.1450
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