Surgical knife

Made:: 1871-1920

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Surgical knife, consisting of narrow barbed sting-ray spine, with pointed wooden haft, from Hawaii, 1871-1920

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A222382

Materials:: sting-ray spine and wood

type:: knives

credit:: Glendining

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