- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet. Stone, white in colour and oval in shape with a bulbous appearance. Used by a woman who has no milk with which to feed her child. [ASh [OPS move] 01/11/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 18 mm, Width: max 29 mm, Length: max 62 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.2311 Other numbers: A 110036 75
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