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LicenseAmuletic necklace
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Amuletic necklace
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Amuletic necklace, 25 glass discs threaded on string each with onlaid circles of glass resembling eyes, protection against Evil Eye, from Hebron, Palestinian, 1880-1930
Each disc has inlaid circles of glass resembling eyes, for protection against the Evil Eye - illness, disease or misfortune created by the envy or ill-feeling of others - made in Hebron, Palestine, 1880-1930
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A665302
- Measurements:
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doubled: length 240 mm
width 55 mm
- type:
- necklaces
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