- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet; faceted white glass bead, oval in shape. Used to enable a mother to find her lost child. [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
- 1928
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Glass, Material Bead, Material Pigment, Process Perforated, Process Decorated
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 9 mm, Length: max 16 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1548 Other numbers: A 70413 R 30329 ? 241
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