Chicken wishbone carried by sailors as a charm against drowning
- Made:
- 1910
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Chicken wishbone carried by sailors as a charm against drowning, Lovett collection, South Devon, English, 1910
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A132527
- Materials:
- bone
- Measurements:
-
overall: 8 mm x 57 mm x 36 mm,
- type:
- wishbones
- credit:
- Lovett, E.R.
