Red earthenware skin scraper in form of crocodile

Made:: 1880-1925 in Sudan

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Red earthenware skin scraper in form of crocodile, with rasp base, Sudanese, 1880-1925 (Sir Henry William Peek Collection).

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A194547

Materials:: earthenware

Measurements:: approx: height 60 mm
length 170 mm
width 64 mm

type:: foot scraper - body rasp

credit:: Glendining

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Red earthenware skin scraper in form of crocodile

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