- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet; shell, perforated. [ASh [OPS move] 08/09/2017]
- Long description
- Amulet; shell, perforated. White in colour and roughly in shape with a wide opening on the underside. The exterior surface is ridged. Used to cure swollen and distended arteries in women only. [ASh [OPS move] 08/09/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date
- Date collected
- 1929
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Shell, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 29 mm, Width: max 35 mm, Length: max 45 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1749 Other numbers: A 70131 R 29987
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