- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet. ?Brown substance inside opaque white pot with silver coloured lid. [EH [OPS Move] 16/3/2017]
- 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
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 50 mm jar, Height: max 41 mm jar
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1223 Other numbers: A 110750 32
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