- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet. Shell, which is cream in colour with a mottled black pattern on the exterior. Rounded upper surface and a circular opening on the underside. [ASh [OPS move] 16/01/2018]
- Geographical reference
- 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 Shell
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 16 mm, Width: max 20 mm, Length: max 28 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.3534 Other numbers: A 70127 R 29968 52
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