- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet; small stone, dark brown in colour. To enable a child to speak distinctly. For children only. [SB [OPS Move] 13/09/2017]
- 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 14 mm, Width: max 11 mm, Length: max 19 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1876 Other numbers: A 108084 R 36995 2160 1938 316
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