- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, made from ten opaque blue glass beads. Used by women to cure huskiness and loos of voice caused by a cold. [CW [OPS Move Project] 14/02/2017]
- 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
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 13 mm, Width: max 24 mm, Length: max 60 mm string
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.2455 Other numbers: A 107224 R 38556 80
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