M0016842: Necklace made from the vertebrae of an adder hung with three medallions

Date:
1958
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/151/75
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M0016842: Necklace made from the vertebrae of an adder hung with three medallions. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced March 2022: Necklet of the vertebrae of an adder hung with 3 medallions.

Description

Photograph of an item from the Hildburgh Collection of Austrian and Bavarian Amulets acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (Hildburgh Collection no. 3857). Necklace hung with three medallions of the Madonna and Child, St. Francis and Ignatius loyola. It would have been put in a child's bed for protection. 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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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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