- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet. Animal bone, oval in shape with a hollowed out centre. Used by man who has quarrelled with his mother. [ASh [OPS move] 27/11/2017]
- 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
- Materials and processes
- Material Animal Bone, Process Sawn
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 25 mm, Width: max 36 mm, Length: max 70 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.2871 Other numbers: A 107218 R 38626 74
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