Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for E 1916.32 A-D: 'Four blue-glaze, modern pendants in form of A) a human bust; B) a cat and C) an adjutant bird (an ibis); These objects of ancient Egyptian symbolic figures and are used as fertility charms by native women. D) a hand (also blue-glaze ware)- pendant charm against the evil eye.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Collected by Winifred Blackman in Upper Egypt in 1913.
Event Date 1913
Author: maa

Context (Production / use)
Note by Blackman, transcribed by Anatole von Hügel in 1916 Accession register: 'Fertility charms. Modern, glazed-ware institution of ancien Egyptian symbolic figures. These are brought by the men to the villages & the women placing them on the floor hump over them in the hopes of promoting fertility. I was told that the women run out in flocks to meet the men, so anxious are they to have children. Upper Children [von Hügel probably meant 'Upper Egypt'!] Note by donor (W. S. B.)'
Event Date 1916
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Display)
On display in the Maudslay Hall (drawer beneath "Recent Acquisitions" case), in 1990.
Event Date 1990
Author: Sam Daisley

Description (Physical description)
Pendant of blue glaze in the form of an adjutant stork sat on an oval base. There is an attachment loop through at the back of the stork.
Event Date 16/11/2021
Author: Sam Daisley