Polished black earthenware alligator foot scraper

Made:: 1880-1925 in Sudan

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Polished black earthenware foot scraper in the shape of an alligator, finely incised scraper on base, Sudanese, 1880-1925

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A243349

Materials:: earthenware

type:: foot scraper - body rasp

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Polished black earthenware alligator foot scraper

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