Opaque yellow pebble

Made:
1880-1933
Opaque yellow pebble, amulet for pain in the knees

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Opaque yellow pebble, amulet for pain in the knees
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Opaque yellow pebble, amulet for pain in the knees, obtained from a Maghraby-Moor travelling about selling charms, North African, 1880-1933

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A665261
Materials:
stone, quartz?, iron stained?
type:
stone
credit:
Blackman