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Amuletic rosary, wooden beads on silver chain with a steel heart and cross pendant, carried by a sailor against drowning, London, English, 1901-1930
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A666035
- Materials:
- beads, wood, chain, steel and pendant, steel
- Measurements:
-
overall: 7 mm x 270 mm x 15 mm, .02 kg
- type:
- rosaries
- credit:
- Loan, Wellcome Trust
