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Circumcision knife
- Made:
- 1871-1910
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Circumcision knife with black obsidian blade and wooden handle painted red and decorated with incised barbed design inlaid with lime powder, from Admiralty Islands (?), 1871-1910
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A102297
- type:
- circumcision knife
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)