- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, bark roll inside hollow wooden cylinder covered with plaited yellow and dark brown plant fibre. [ILL [OPS move] 30/10/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Mr Stow
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1929
- Date collected
- By 1929
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Straw Fibre Plant, Material Bark Fibre Plant, Process Plaited
- Dimensions
- Height: max 30 mm, Height: max 63 mm, Width: max 27 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.49.266
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