Cloth amulet, covered in bluish grey cloth, with metal blade or tail at one end, against scorpion, serpent bites, used by Mohammedans, Jerusalem, Palestine, 1880-1930
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A665271
- Materials:
- wool and nail, blade, steel
- Measurements:
-
overall: 17 mm x 121 mm x 28 mm, .012 kg
- type:
- protective amulets
- credit:
- Loan, Wellcome Trust
