amulet, root, signature
notes: label: Description
content: Part of a tree root in the form of the letter "A." The root was collected by Otis Brabham of Allendale, South Carolina and donated to the museum in 1927. Mr. Brabham collected roots and limbs of all shapes and claimed to have all the letters of the alphabet, as well as many other shapes including: a lyre, a saxophone, a fiddle, a sword, a hammer, a pipe, a left hand, a turtle head, a horse's foot, a deer's head and many more. The curator declined to accept the remainder of the collection. Although no therapeutic properties were attributed to these pieces, the curator added the object to the museum exhibit on "Magic Medicine" under the category of "Signatures."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Otis Brabham
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-02294
label: catalog number
content: M-02294
label: accession number
content: 99303
objectType: label: Object Name
content: amulet, root, signature
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/8 in x 5 3/4 in x 4 1/4 in; 3.4925 cm x 14.605 cm x 10.795 cm