
Wooden instrument for piercing ears
- Made:
- 1880-1920



Wooden instrument for piercing ears, with wooden spike and decoratively carved octagonal handle, South East Africa, 1880-1920 (Sir Henry William Peek Collection).
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A194316
- Materials:
- wood and brass, ? material
- type:
- ear piercer
- credit:
- Glendining