M0019734: Three leather amulet cases on seperate thongs, Sudan

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Three leather case, amulets on seperate thongs.

Photograph of three leather amulet case on thongs. According to the accession record, one of the three would be buried in a neighbouring grave and the other two placed secretly under a victims bed in order to cause impotence. They were presented to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum by Captain R. G. Anderson and accessioned in 1937 (accession number R1483/1937)

December 1963

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: R1483/1937

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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