Amulet. Four strings of beads fastened by a leather strap with nickel buckle terminating in red woollen tassels. [ASh [OPS move] 10/01/2018]

Collection type: Object
Description: Amulet. Four strings of beads fastened by a leather strap with nickel buckle terminating in red woollen tassels. [ASh [OPS move] 10/01/2018]
Long description: Amulet. Four strings of beads, spherical, blue, glass; fastened by a leather strap with nickel buckle, united by a single bead from which hang four strings of similar but smaller beads terminating in red woollen tassels. To keep evil eye off horses. [ASh [OPS move] 10/01/2018]
Geographical reference: Egypt
Africa > Northern Africa > Egypt
Person: Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman; PRM source Wellcome Institute; PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
Date
Acquisition information: Transferred: 1985
Materials and processes: Material Glass, Material Animal Leather Skin, Material Nickel Metal, Material Wool Yarn Animal, Process Strung, Process Perforated, Process Knotted
Dimensions: Height: max 22 mm, Width: max 110 mm, Length: max 450 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1985.54.3495 Other numbers: A 70182 R 30257 337

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