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Teething charm, Roman

Classical & Medieval Medicine

100-500 CE

Copy of an Etruscan denture, Europe, 1901-1930

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1901-1930

Equine molar, set into metal mount to form pendant

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1850-1920

Copy of an Etruscan denture, Europe, 1901-1930

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1901-1930

Large animal tooth in pink and blue silk bag to cure toothache, Exeter, England, 1901-1910

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1901-1910

Fossilised shark's tooth, perforated at top and ti

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1800-1900

Animal's incisor tooth amulet with laterally pierc

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1930

Necklace, amuletic, comprising 14 teeth, 8 blue be

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1920

Animal's incisor tooth amulet with laterally pierc

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1930

9 small animal teeth threaded on fine strands of b

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Thong necklace threaded with two horns, a tusk, an

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1930

Amuletic bundle

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Finger ring and amulet, setting contains a stag's tooth

Wellcome (general)

Amulet, animal (crocodile ?) tooth, mounted in wov

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1930

Shark's tooth, used in trephining, and mounted wit

Surgery

1914

Silver gilt finger ring a hunting charm with 3 pea

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1601-1800

Sheep's tooth attached by cotton to outside of sma

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1930

Amuletic horns, teeth, beads, bean and bones

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Amulet consisting of curved tooth

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Tooth, small tusk, two bones, two fibre bags and one bamboo pig threaded on hard leather ring

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1910

2 shark's teeth mounted on card to demonstrate the

Surgery

Silver finger ring, a hunting charm, set with larg

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1601-1800

Medicine man's necklace, threaded with glass beads and teeth, Apache,USA

Shamen's amuletic necklace, Apache, United States, c. 1801-1900.

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1801-1900

Partial upper and lower denture set, aluminium plates, porcelain tube teeth human upper anteriors, probably English or French, 1858-1880

Partial upper and lower dentures, Europe, 1858-1880

Dentistry

1858-1880

Four human auterior interiors with mineral inlays, Ecuador, 1401-1800

Four human auterior interiors with mineral inlays,

Dentistry

1401-1800

Etruscan denture, copy, to prevent convergence

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1901-1930

2 front teeth, knocked out in tooth avulsion ceremony, mounted on cardboard, from Sunday Island, Victoria, Australia, 1881-1920

2 front teeth, knocked out in tooth avulsion cerem

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1881-1920

Four Human incisors with gold inlays, from Ecuador, the Esmeraldas and Mexico, 1401-1800

Four Human incisors with gold inlays, from Ecuador

Dentistry

1401-1800

Partial lower denture, ivory with one human bicuspid, English, 1820-1860

Partial lower denture, ivory with one human bicusp

Dentistry

1820-1860

Greek dental bridge, four teeth, wired, copy

Copy of a Greek dental bridge, Europe, 1901-1930

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1901-1930

Amulet, made from bear's jaw, from Katchin, North East Assam, India, 1801-1900

Amulet

Asian Medicine

1801-1900

Molar tooth, drilled, filled with gutta percha (?), no provenance

Molar tooth, drilled, filled with gutta percha

Dentistry

before 1980

Gourd container, double curved body, spherical with smaller spherical head, bound with cloth, beads, string etc, part of medicine man's outfit, Africa, 1890-1920

Gourd container, double curved body, spherical wit

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1920

Human tooth, in grey and green printed cotton bag, tied round neck of infant to facilitate teething, south east London, 1916, English, 1880-1916

Human tooth, in grey and green printed cotton bag,

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1916

Two tooth bundles, about 10 teeth bundled together, held together by string

Two teeth bundles, approximately ten teeth bundled together, bound by string

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Three upper incisors, with torquoise inlays, Ecuador, 1401-1850

Three upper incisors, with torquoise inlays, Ecuad

Dentistry

1401-1850

Etruscan denture, copy, from original found in tomb

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1901-1930

Amulet, animal tooth, pierced at root end, threaded with twisted wire loop, South Africa, 1880-1920

Animal tooth amulet

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920