M0016858: Zahnfeige mounted as a pendant / M0016859: Wehen Kreuz double cross / M0016860: Heart shaped pendant / M0016861: Aetites for promoting childbirth / M0016862: Rock crystal mounted as pendant / M0016863: Two Krebsaugen

Date:
1958
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/151/82
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M0016858: Zahnfeige mounted as a pendant / M0016859: Wehen Kreuz double cross / M0016860: Heart shaped pendant / M0016861: Aetites for promoting childbirth / M0016862: Rock crystal mounted as pendant / M0016863: Two Krebsaugen. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Heart shaped pendant.
Previous title, replaced March 2022: 'Aetites', substance mounted in silver as a pendant.
Previous title, replaced March 2022: Eye-shaped piece of rock crystal mounted as pendant.
Previous title, replaced March 2022: Krebsaugen, 2 pendants
Previous title, replaced March 2022: Zahnfeige, mounted as a pendant, for infants when teething
Previous title, replaced March 2022: Wehen Kreuz, double cross

Description

Photograph of items from the Hildburgh Collection of Austrian and Bavarian Amulets acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (Hildburgh Collection no. 3873, 3874, 3875, 3876, 3877 and 3878). Zahnfeige for infants when teething; a double cross worn during labour; a heart-shaped pendant made from a piece of fossil madrepore coral worn for protection against fevers; a stone mounted in silver to promote childbirth; rock crystal mounted as a pendant; and two "krebsaugen" pendants. Related images: M0016836-M0016864

Publication/Creation

1958

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds an archive file concerning the collection: WA/HMM/TR/Abc/C.4/1

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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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