- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, cellulose nitrate bead. Orange in colour, cylindrical in shape with a perforation through the centre. It has broken diagonally at one side. [AF [OPS Move] 05/12/2017]
- 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 Cellulose Nitrate, Process Moulded, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 12 mm, Length: max 9 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.3060 Other numbers: 232
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