- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet; small yellow glass ball with green and red stripes, chipped. Worn as a charm by a woman who is always crying and does not sleep at night. [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
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 25 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1693 Other numbers: A 107802 R 36647 ? 28
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