- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, made from a section on bone. Cylindrical in shape with carved edges. Used by men to cure a cough. [ASh [OPS move] 03/11/2017]
- 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 10 mm, Width: max 11 mm, Length: max 19 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.2348 Other numbers: A 110400 441
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