M0019130: Silver wand or rattle consisting of flat lotus symbol with pendant bells and hand-symbols

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Rattle, made of silver, with inscription in Hebrew, Hands of Fatima and bells attached.

Photograph of a wand or rattle made of silver with an inscription in Hebrew, flat lotus symbols and bells attached, from the Palestine region. It was purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1931 and given accession number A171379. It is now held by the Science Museum (object number A171379)

August 1962

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession index card for the item: A171379

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.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.