Knife with cane handle and green quartzite blade

Made:: 1870-1920

Knife with cane handle and green quartzite blade, now separate
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Knife with cane handle and green quartzite blade, now separate, from Australia, 1870-1920

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A96097

Materials:: cane and quartzite

Measurements:: handle: length 95 mm
handle, maximum: diameter 14 mm
blade: length 23 mm
blade: width 16 mm

type:: knives

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Knife with cane handle and green quartzite blade

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