- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet; yellow pellet, oval in shape. Used by a man who is ill and yellow in colour. [SB [OPS Move] 04/09/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date
- Date collected
- 1929
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 5 mm, Width: max 10 mm, Length: max 21 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1531 Other numbers: A 107936 R 37071 166
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1985.54.856Amulet, Stone, highly polished surface and green in colour. Mottled appearance with some scratches present. [ASh [OPS move] 7/3/2017]1985.54.856
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