M0000674: Two acorns charms

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Two acorns charms.

Photograph of two acorns charms. The oak was regrded as the home of the Thunder God and the acorn as its fruit, was thus associated with thunder and lightning. Therefore acorns (real and copied) could guard against lightning. The items were previously part of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum but are not held by Wellcome Collection.

01 January 1930

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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 2020.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.