Lancet, consisting of small shark's tooth embedded in pointed wooden haft
- Made:
- 1871-1920
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Lancet, consisting of small shark's tooth embedded in pointed wooden haft, decorated with inlaid mother of pearl discs, from Manihiki, Cook Islands, 1871-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A123494
- Materials:
- wood, ivory, shark's tooth and shell, mother-of-pearl
- Measurements:
-
length 125 mm
with tooth, approx: width 30 mm
maximum: thickness 21 mm
- type:
- lancets
- credit:
- Glendining