- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet; leather, triangular, containing written charm. [ASh [OPS move] 27/11/2017]
- Long description
- Amulet; leather, triangular, containing written charm. Dark brown in colour with a black strip of leather looped at the top, probably for suspension. Stitched with animal sinew. Charm used as a cure. [ASh [OPS move] 27/11/2017]
- 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 Animal Leather Skin, Material Animal Sinew, Process Stitched, Process Written
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 12 mm, Width: max 74 mm, Length: max 82 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.2858 Other numbers: A 60766 R 28889 72
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