- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet; piece of red stone with a sparkly core, possibly mica? Used to cure eye disease. [ASh [OPS move] 13/09/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date
- Date collected
- 1929
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 7 mm, Width: max 12 mm, Length: max 20 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1825 Other numbers: A 108396 R 37228 638
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