Collection

Glass disc necklace worn to avert the Evil Eye

Made:: 1880-1930 in Hebron and Hebron and

Glass disc necklace, detailed along with four sky-blue beads of smaller dimensions, worn to avert Evil Eye, Hebron, Palestine, 1880-1930

Details

Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A6077

Materials:: glass and string

Measurements:: overall: 8 mm x 315 mm 225 mm, .154 kg

type:: necklace

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