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

Description (Physical description)
Pendant of blue glaze in the form of a hand, ending below the wrist. There is an intentional perforation through the wrist of the hand.
Event Date 16/11/2021
Author: Sam Daisley