- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet. Stone, black in colour, roughly triangular in shape with a polished surface. Used for red, painful eyes by young girls only. [ASh [OPS move] 14/11/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 13 mm, Width: max 16 mm, Length: max 21 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.2551 Other numbers: A 110323 363
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