Amulet resembling twisted horn

Made:: 1860-1910

Amulet resembling twisted horn
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Amulet resembling twisted horn, coated with wax in imitation of coral, to ward off Evil Eye, from Naples, Italian, 1860-1910

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A666106

Materials:: stone, wax, metal and foil

Measurements:: length 103 mm
width 37 mm
depth 40 mm

type:: amulet

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Amulet resembling twisted horn

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