- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, a curved piece of boar's tooth. Pierced at the wider end for suspension. [EH [OPS move] 22/11/2017]
- 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 Boar Tooth Animal, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 14 mm, Width: max 96 mm, Length: max 98 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.50.1406
Search terms: Religion, Animalia, Amulet, Animal Part
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