- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, one of five pellets of incense, three yellow and two greyish colour, a form of incense used to bring good luck. Roughly triangular prism shaped. For the other pellets which are part of this amulet, see [1985.54.848 .1 - 3, and 1985.54.848 .5] [CW [OPS Move] 07/03/2017]
- 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
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 9 mm, Width: max 10 mm, Length: max 11 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.848.4 Other numbers: A 107779 R 36930 5
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