- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, made from brown stone with a wider base and some stratification. Used by women to cure extreme constipation which has caused a prolapsed bowel. [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
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 26 mm, Width: max 28 mm, Length: max 41 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.2490 Other numbers: A 108414 R 37447 656
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