- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet. Shell, with a mottle white and black surface. The shell is rounded upper surface and a round opening on the underside. [ASh [OPS move] 08/12/2017]
- 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 Shell
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 14 mm, Width: max 19 mm, Length: max 25 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.3136 Other numbers: 419
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