Amulet, "Higgab"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 19 Oct 1988
label: Collection Date
content: 1965 to 1966
name: label: Collector
content: Alixa Naff
label: Donor Name
content: George Naff
notes: label: Notes
content: Two clusters of beans, 7 beans each, strung on string, dangling from a safety pin along with a cluster of 6 plastic "charms": fish, hand, horseshoe, triangular shape, disc with 6 holes, elephant. Originally intended to be worn by a child, to ward off evil. Common symbols of good luck-fish (Christianity), horseshoe (Western Europe), hand and blue color (protection from evil eye). Significance of the elephant is unknown.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Nov 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Cairo, Egypt, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Egyptian
label: Culture
content: Arabic-Islamic
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 378937
label: USNM Number
content: E424821-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Amulet
physicalDescription: label: Width
content: 10 cm