- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, gazelle skin. For protection and good luck. [BS [OPS move] 30/11/2017]
- 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 Antelope Hide Skin Animal
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 16 mm, Width: max 17 mm, Length: max 38 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.2953 Other numbers: A 70441 30241
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