- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet; horn-shaped grey stone, used to cure illness. [SB [OPS Move] 19/09/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1928
- Date collected
- 1928
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 6 mm, Width: max 15 mm, Length: max 34 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1972 Other numbers: A 70402 R 29846 28
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