Short knife

Made:: 1800-1920

Short knife, with flint blade and solid gum handle
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Short knife, with flint blade and solid gum handle, broken in two, used by Aboriginals, Australian, 1800-1920

Details

Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A4812

Materials:: stone and resin

Measurements:: approximately: length 86 mm
maximum: width 27 mm
approximately: thickness 13 mm

type:: knives

credit:: Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)

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