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View full screenSheet from a colour woodblock print triptych, depicting a kabuki actor as Itsutsuya Gorobei (and inset, Bando Takesaburo I as Itsutsuya Denbei) in the play Kuruwa no shiranami, performed at the Kawarasaki-za: Japan, by Utagawa Kunisada, 1854
K.1999.488
Utagawa Kunisada, 1786 - 1864
Edo, Musashi province, Japan, East Asia
1854
Utagawa Kunisada, 1786 - 1864
Mackintosh & Others: Aspects of the George Smith collection (Hunterian Art Gallery, 1988), no. 35
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Flat oblong stone, notched on the sides and pierced with two holes, used as a charm for curing disease in Islay
One of four large amber beads used as a charm against blindness by the Macdonalds of Glencoe
One of four large amber beads used as a charm against blindness by the Macdonalds of Glencoe
One of four large amber beads used as a charm against blindness by the Macdonalds of Glencoe
One of four large amber beads used as a charm against blindness by the Macdonalds of Glencoe
Written charm to cure toothache bought from a professional witch at Kishorn, Lochcarron, and worn round the neck by a shepherd
Written charm to cure toothache given by the wife of a gamekeeper at Garve, Ross-shire, to a domestic servant in Dingwall in 1869
Perforated stone charm which was hung in a cow byre as protection against bewitchment, from Cumbernauld, Dunbartonshire
Charm made from a natural concretion which had been hung at the foot of the bed to ward off evil dreams, from Galloway
Charm made from a seed of Ipomoea Tuberosa, mounted for suspension, and engraved with cognisance and the motto of Macneil of Barra
Rock crystal ball with a silver frame and chain, the charmstone of the Stewarts of Ardsheal, 16th - 17th century