Three steel tattooing needles

Made:
1890-1930
Three steel tattooing needles, conical heads, pointed tips

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Three steel tattooing needles, conical heads, pointed tips
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Three steel tattooing needles, conical heads, pointed tips, twisted decoration, mounted on glass display board, Zambezi, South East Africa, 1890-1930

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A119944
Materials:
steel, display board, glass and display board, paper, cover
Measurements:
max.: length 128 mm
max.: length 119 mm
head: diameter 6 mm
display board: length 152 mm
display board: width 78 mm
type:
tattooing needles
credit:
Christal, F.

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