Sheep's tooth attached by cotton to outside of small rectangular blue and lilac silk bag

Made:: 1870-1930

Sheep's tooth attached by cotton to outside of small

Sheep's tooth attached by cotton to outside of small
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Sheep's tooth attached by cotton to outside of small rectangular blue and lilac silk bag, against toothache, South Devon, 1870-1930

Details

Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A666065

Materials:: tooth and silk, bag

Measurements:: bag: length 90 mm
bag: width 75 mm
tooth: length 34 mm
tooth: width 17 mm
tooth: thickness 14 mm

type:: protective amulets

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