Green stone amulet representing a hand clutching a stone

Made:: 1701-1900 in Peru

SMG00168239
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Green stone amulet representing a hand clutching a stone, probably symbolizing money, Upper Plateau Indians, of the Andean Cordilleras, Peru, 1701-1900

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A670019

Materials:: stone

Measurements:: length 26 mm
width 25 mm
thickness 13 mm

type:: amulet

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Green stone amulet representing a hand clutching a stone

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