Surgical instrument consisting of wishbone shaped wooden hook with card attached
- Made:
- 1891-1930
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Surgical instrument consisting of wishbone shaped wooden hook with card attached, for drawing lipoma taut before cutting it, "matau" in Vaitupu, Ellice Islands, 1891-1930
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A96750
- Materials:
- wood, fibre and mount, cardboard
- Measurements:
-
approximately: length 62 mm
approximately: width 31 mm
mount: length 546 mm
mount: width 241 mm
- type:
- surgical instruments
- credit:
- Kennedy, D.G.
