- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet. Piece of skin of a camel. Irregular in shape with light brown and black hair attached. To cure pain in the head. [AF [OPS Move] 24/11/2017]
- 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 Camel Hide Skin Camelid Animal
- Dimensions
- Width: max 59 mm, Width: max 12 mm, Length: max 106 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.2842 Other numbers: A 70054 R 30238
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