- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet. Animal bone, hollow in the centre and roughly cylindrical in shape. Used for pain in the lower part of the leg. [ASh [OPS move] 23/11/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Animal Bone, Material Bone
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 29 mm, Width: max 36 mm, Length: max 51 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.2820 Other numbers: A 170021 A 665985 R 13742/ 1936 165
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