- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet; yellow stone with a slight pink tinge on one side. Oval in shape. Used as a protection against black magic. [ASh [OPS move] 20/11/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date
- Date collected
- 1931
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 13 mm, Width: max 26 mm, Length: max 40 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.2669 Other numbers: A 110344 384
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