- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet; brown and grey stone, roughly rectangular in shape, with a 'step' in the centre of the stone. Used to cure possession by an 'afarit'. [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 1929
- Date collected
- 1929
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 31 mm, Width: max 59 mm, Length: max 102 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1977 Other numbers: A 107789 R 36601 15
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