M0017987: Four stone amuletic objects in the form of human figures, Bolivia

Date:
May 1960
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/160/58
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M0017987: Four stone amuletic objects in the form of human figures, Bolivia. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced October 2020: Amuletic stone figurines to ensure fertility, Bolivia.

Description

Photograph of four Bolivian amuletic stone objects to ensure fertility, all in the form of human figures. They were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Musuem at an unknown point and given accession numbers A300422, A300433, A300453, and A300404..

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May 1960

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

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Notes

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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