Steel bladed knife with wooden handle
- Made:
- 1880-1910
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Steel bladed knife with wooden handle, in hide and lizard skin sheath with twisted leather thong containing tweezers,lancet and a native razor, made at Kosti village by Gawamaa tribe, White Nile Province, Africa, 1880-1910
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A70698
- Materials:
- knife, steel, knife, wood, sheath, lizard, sheath, hide, tweezers, steel, lancet, steel and razor, steel
- Measurements:
-
knife: length 255 mm
knife, handle: width 43 mm
knife, handle top: diameter 37 mm
knife, with sheaf: length 265 mm
lancet: length 137 mm
lancet: width 7 mm
razor: length 137 mm
razor: width 21 mm
tweezers: length 155 mm
tweezers: width 3 mm
- type:
- knife
- credit:
- Gamaawi, M.A.El
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