- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet. Stone, buff in colour with multiple fissures and cracks in the surface. Triangular in section. Used by girls for a white rash. [ASh [OPS move] 21/11/2017]
- 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 Stone
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 17 mm, Width: max 28 mm, Length: max 46 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.2737 Other numbers: A 110542 583
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