- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, consisting of a tooth with two long roots. Used to drive away a spirit. [ASh [OPS move] 07/11/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1930
- Date collected
- 1930
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Tooth, Material Animal Tooth
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 13 mm, Width: max 29 mm, Length: max 33 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.2431 Other numbers: A 110076 115
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