- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet. Nutmeg. Oval in shape and dark brown in colour. One of a pair of nutmegs, for other object see [1985.54.225 .2] [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
- Materials and processes
- Material Foodstuff, Material Plant Seed
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 22 mm, Length: max 29 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1225.1 Other numbers: A 110753 32E
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