M0018916: Mexican amulet depicting two grotesque figures

Date:
December 1961-January 1962
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/168/40
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M0018916: Mexican amulet depicting two grotesque figures. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced October 2020: Mexican amulet depicting two grotesque figures

Description

Photograph of a discoid amulet or pendant. It was purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1928 and given accession number A73380. It was transferred to the University of California, Los Angeles in 1966

Publication/Creation

December 1961-January 1962

Physical description

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession index card for the item: A73380

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Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

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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Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.

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