M0017947: Amulet in the form of a fish, Papua New Guinea

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Photograph of an amulet in the form of a fish covered with red and black abrus with a long tail of string. It originates from German New Guinea (modern day Papua New Guinea) and was purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1930 and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R7037/1936). It was included in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum exhibition "Medicine of the Aboriginal Peoples in the British Commonwealth" held in 1952 and published in <i>Catalogue of an exhibition illustrating the medicine of the aboriginal peoples in the British Commomwealth</i>.

M0017947: Amulet in the form of a fish, Papua New Guinea

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