One rectangular and two cylindrical amulets

Made:: 1880-1930

One rectangular and two cylindrical amulets

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One rectangular and two cylindrical amulets
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© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

One rectangular and two cylindrical amulets, all covered in beads, with suspended cowrie shells, all 3 on long double string of beads, Palestinian, 1880-1930

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A665381

Materials:: glass, shell and cotton, thread

Measurements:: height 415 mm
3 amulets: width 225 mm
fattest shell: depth 17 mm

type:: pendant

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One rectangular and two cylindrical amulets

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