- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet; Two pieces of “Tebiama Shami”, a grey ?resin substance. Pounded and made into a poultice for pain in the waist region. [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
- Materials and processes
- Material Resin Plant
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 22 mm, Width: max 27 mm, Length: max 43 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1799 Other numbers: A 138544
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