Lancet consisting of wooden handle with shark's tooth attached
- Made:
- 1891-1925
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Lancet consisting of wooden handle with shark's tooth attached, from Vaitupu, Ellice Islands, 1891-1925
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A96744
- Materials:
- wood, shark's tooth, ivory and string, fibre
- Measurements:
-
length 200 mm
with shark's tooth: width 33 mm
handle, maximum: width 15 mm
- type:
- lancets
- credit:
- Kennedy, D.G.
