Steel tattooing instrument with cane handle
- Made:
- 1880-1925
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Steel tattooing instrument with cane handle, consists of seven needles fixed into end of handle which is bound with fibre, fixed to glass display board, Upper Egypt, 1880-1925
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A60856
- Materials:
- steel, handle, cane, display board, glass and display board, paper
- Measurements:
-
length 103 mm
diameter 8 mm
display board: length 154 mm
display board: width 72 mm
display board: thickness 3 mm
- type:
- tattooing instruments
- credit:
- Blackman
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