M0019731: Amulet formed of two pieces of root hung on leather thongs forming necklet, Sunda

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Amulet, leather thongs forming necklet.

Photograph of an amulet known as Abu Abyad worn by children as a protection aginst the evil eye. Originally from Kordofan, Sudan. It was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at an unknown point and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R14651/1936). It is mentioned in the Third report of the Wellcome Research Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum, 1908.

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: R14651/1936

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.