- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet. Shell, which is conical in shape with a spikey exterior. Holes along the surface in a diagonal line. [ASh [OPS move] 12/12/2017]
- 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 20 mm, Width: max 28 mm, Length: max 60 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.3184 Other numbers: 218
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