- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, made from brown coloured stone. Polished surface. Used by a woman who is angry and unhappy. [ASh [OPS move] 01/09/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1930
- Date collected
- 1930
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 9 mm, Width: max 14 mm, Length: max 21 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1459 Other numbers: A 107669 / 40523 540
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