Set of 5 steel tattooing instruments for drawing "Uli" on the body (mma Nwa Nwuli)
- Made:
- 1880-1920
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Set of 5 steel tattooing instruments for drawing "Uli" on the body (mma Nwa Nwuli) also used in painting the body with dyes from juices, Southern Nigerian, 1880-c. 1920; all 5 instruments identical, slight differences in size 17 cm between longest and shortest
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A120163
- Materials:
- steel
- type:
- tattooing instruments
- credit:
- Jeffreys, M.D.W.
