Surgical knife
- Made:
- 1880-1930
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Surgical knife, short triangular, steel blade, long wooden handle, hide sheath with plaited hair tassels decorated with beads, Upper Nile, Africa, 1880-1930
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A140114
- Materials:
- steel, copper, wood, hide, hair, human (?), hair, animal (?) and glass
- Measurements:
-
knife: length 346 mm
blade: length 102 mm
handle: length 246 mm
sheath: length 395 mm
sheath: width 35 mm
sheath plus tassels (approx.): length 615 mm
- type:
- knives
- credit:
- Glendining
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