Amulet, in form of small ivory tusk attached to blue glass bullocks horns

Made:: 1860-1920

Amulet
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Amulet, in form of small ivory tusk attached to blue glass bullocks horns, one inverted, by silver link chain, European, 1860-1920

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A665449

Materials:: tusk, ivory, mount and chain, silver and horns, glass

Measurements:: overall: length 140 mm
max: width 36 mm

type:: amulet

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Amulet, in form of small ivory tusk attached to blue glass bullocks horns

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