- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, made from yellow coloured stone. Used by boys for pain in the heart. [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 1931
- Date collected
- 1931
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 14 mm, Width: max 19 mm, Length: max 27 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.2461 Other numbers: A 110595 635
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