- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet; ingredients for making a dye; Samgh (gum), paraffin and afs (Gall-nut). The materials are broken up into fragments and are dark yellow in appearance. [SB [OPS Move] 11/09/2017]
- 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
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 10 mm largest piece, Width: max 18 mm largest piece, Length: max 26 mm largest piece
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1786 Other numbers: A 138603 514
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