Amuletic pendant consisting of flat drop-shaped piece of brown and yellow crocidolite with silver ring

Made:: 1851-1920 in Austria

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Amuletic pendant consisting of flat drop-shaped piece of brown
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Amuletic pendant consisting of flat drop-shaped piece of brown and yellow crocidolite with silver ring, De Mortillet Collection, Austrian, 1851-1920

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A657536

Materials:: crocidolite and silver

type:: pendants

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Amuletic pendant consisting of flat drop-shaped piece of brown and yellow crocidolite with silver ring

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