- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Medicine; a small piece of black mineral substance. Fragmentary in nature. [ASh [OPS move] 15/09/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1928
- Date collected
- 1928
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Mineral
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 16 mm largest piece, Width: max 28 mm largest piece, Length: max 55 mm largest piece
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1894 Other numbers: A 138551 2?
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