- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet; stone, dark brown stone with a speckled surface. Round in shape. Used by childless women in a fertility rite. [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 21 mm, Width: max 24 mm, Length: max 34 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1835 Other numbers: A 70459 R 30190
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