Surgical knife with steel blade and wooden handle
- Made:
- 1880-1920
Surgical knife with steel blade and wooden handle, in sheath of wood and leather, with whetstone attached, Algeria, Africa, 1880-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A652417
- Measurements:
-
knife: length 145 mm
knife handle: diameter 17 mm
knife and sheath: length 162 mm
maximum, sheath: diameter 25 mm
whetsone: length 78 mm
whetstone: width 29 mm
whetstone: depth 4 mm
overall, thongs extended fully, and including: width 230 mm
- type:
- surgical knife