- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet. Stone, grey in colour, with paler grey bands running across the surface. Large and spherical in shape. Used by women to drive away sadness. [ASh [OPS move] 24/10/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 25 mm, Width: max 47 mm, Length: max 67 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.2123 Other numbers: A 107818 R 36841
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