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LicenseSteel surgical knife, short flat blade rounded at end
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Steel surgical knife, short flat blade rounded at end, tanged into wooden handle, for opening abscesses in the grain, Southern Nigeria, 1871-1930
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A120305
- Materials:
- steel and wood, handle
- Measurements:
-
blade: length 38 mm
handle: length 68 mm
blade: width 10 mm
handle: diameter 10 mm
- type:
- knives and surgical instruments
- credit:
- Jeffreys, M.D.W.
