- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, one of two pods from an Acacia. Brown and curving with visible seeds and a broken tip. For associated pod see 1985.54.2385 .1. For children learning to talk. [AF [OPS move] 06/11/2017]
- 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
- Materials and processes
- Material Plant Seed Capsule
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 10 mm, Width: max 14 mm, Length: max 45 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.2385.2 Other numbers: A 107142 R 37424 144
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