- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet; two dark blue glass beads, both strung onto red cotton thread. Used for pain in the right breast. [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
- Materials and processes
- Material Bead, Material Glass, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 9 mm, Width: max 9 mm, Length: max 15 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.2701 Other numbers: A 110078 117
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