- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet; thirteen yellow glass beads. [ASh [OPS move] 07/09/2017]
- Long description
- Amulet; thirteen yellow glass beads, all stung onto string. Used as a cure for a cough by men only. [ASh [OPS move] 07/09/2017]
- 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 Glass, Material Bead, Material String, Process Perforated, Process Strung
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 12 mm, Width: max 34 mm, Length: max 100 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1689 Other numbers: A 107901 R 37181 131
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