- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, made from pale yellow stone. Oval in shape with darker lines running through it. Used by men for pain in the arm. [AF [OPS move] 09/11/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1929
- Date collected
- 1929
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 27 mm, Width: max 26 mm, Length: max 41 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.2481 Other numbers: A 107330 R 36265 191
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