- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, silver filigree hand, with a ring for suspension. [El.B 17/12/2013]
- Person
- Field collector Henry Hildburgh
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1906
- Date collected
- 1906
- Acquisition information
- Loaned: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Silver Metal, Process Filigree
- Dimensions
- Width: max 46 mm, Length: max 75 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.50.1201
- Research and responses
Collected by Walter Leo Hildburgh's father under his instruction.
- Associated publications
- Illustrated in colour in the pamphlet accompanying the Reading Room displays at the Welcome Collection with the caption “Hand of Fatima Silver filigree Tunisia RRa0214/1985.50.1201 Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. Hands of Fatima are used to protect against the evil eye.” [FB 15/8/2016] Illustrated in colour on page 203 in ‘Reading Room Companion consisting of a rare and valuable collection of diverse curiosities acquired by and for Henry Wellcome with a great variety of books’ Written and compiled by Anna Faherty published in 2014 by the Wellcome collection, with the caption “Hand of Fatima Silver filigree Tunisia RRa00214/1985.50.1201 Pitt Rivers Museum The hand of marriage Suitors in Bavaria and Austria would, at one time, present a fig hand made of silver to the object of their affection. If accepted, the girl would attach the hand to her bodice and give, in return, a silver hand holding a heart, to be worn on a watch-chain.” [FB 15/8/2016]
1985.50.1201
Amulet, silver filigree hand, with a ring for suspension. [El.B 17/12/2013]
1985.50.1201
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