Surgical instrument
- Made:
- 1891-1930
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Surgical instrument, one of pair of wooden blocks, with tapered edge, for lifting lipoma, called "fau" in vernacular, used in Vaitupu, Ellice Islands, 1891-1930
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A96749
- Materials:
- wood and mount, cardboard
- Measurements:
-
length 110 mm
width 81 mm
maximum: thickness 7 mm
mount: length 546 mm
mount: width 241 mm
- type:
- surgical instruments
- credit:
- Kennedy, D.G.
