- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet; grey coloured stone, for one who is upset or worried and who has bad dreams. For men and women.
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1929
- Date collected
- 1929
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 18 mm, Width: max 22 mm, Length: max 55 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.943 Other numbers: A 107925 R 37066 155
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