Red earthenware skin scraper in form of crocodile with rasp base

Made:: 1880-1920 in Sudan

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Red earthenware skin scraper in form of crocodile with rasp base, from Sudan, 1880-61920

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A221534

Materials:: earthenware

type:: foot scraper - body rasp

credit:: Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)

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Red earthenware skin scraper in form of crocodile with rasp base

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