- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet; twelve light yellow glass beads strung on red thread. Used as a cure for one who has an illness caused by the evil-eye. For young children (boys) only. [SB [OPS Move] 29/08/2017]
- Geographical reference
- 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
- Depth: max 7 mm, Width: max 23 mm, Length: max 52 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1238 Other numbers: A 110432 473
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