- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet. Cream coloured powder, made from an unknown substance. Stored in its original paper packet. Used by one who is breathless after exercise. [ASh [OPS move] 28/11/2017]
- 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 Paper Plant, Material Mineral, Process Ground
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 5 mm packet, Width: max 34 mm packet, Length: max 66 mm packet
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.2903 Other numbers: A 107060 R 37342 62
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