Stylised glass hands on necklace
- Made:
- 1880-1930
Amuletic necklace featuring 33 crudely executed and stylised glass hands twisted on string, to protect against Evil Eye, from Hebron, Palestinian, 1880-1930
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A6079
- Measurements:
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overall: 5 mm x 178 mm 140 mm, .054 kg
- credit:
- Loan, Wellcome Trust
