- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, one of four coloured candles. Blue candle. For the other three candles see 1985.54.1445 .1 and .3 - 4. [CW [OPS Move Project] 13/02/2017]
- Long description
- Amulet, made one of four coloured candles. Blue candle, cylindrical in shaped with fluted sides. Sometimes carried by children in procession. For the other three candles see [1985.54.1445 .1] and [1985.54.1445 .3 - 4]. [CW [OPS Move Project] 13/02/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1927
- Date collected
- 1927
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Wax
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 11 mm, Length: max 17 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.1445.2 Other numbers: A 109572 34
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