Lancet or fish hook with shark's tooth point hafted on to wooden handle
- Made:
- 1881-1920
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Lancet or fish hook with shark's tooth point hafted on to wooden handle, possibly used in scarification, from Society Islands, 1881-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A222473
- Materials:
- shark's tooth, wood and fibre
- type:
- lancets
- credit:
- Glendining
