- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet; piece of incense, dark brown/red in colour. It has been handbuilt. Used for Sheikh possession. [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
- 1930
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 6 mm, Width: max 14 mm, Length: max 15 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.2694 Other numbers: A 109965 4
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