Amulet
- Museum number:
- 9-11870
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090011870
- Accession number:
- Acc.2910
- Description:
- Amulet, tiger claw. Used against night fear or evil eye; worn by children.
- Donor:
- Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund and Niloufer Hirschmann Ichaporia
- Collection place:
- Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra State, India
- Culture or time period:
- Parsi
- Collector:
- Niloufer Hirschmann Ichaporia
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Amulets
- Function:
- 5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
- Accession date:
- December 7, 1972
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
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- Legacy documentation:
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