Steel tweezers used by Medicine Man
- maker:
- Yoruba people
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Steel tweezers used by Medicine Man, v-shaped, spatulate grips, attached to steel chain of fine wire links, steel chain of fine wire links, Yoruba in or Ibo tribes, Southern Nigerian, 1871-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A301738
- Materials:
- steel
- Measurements:
-
length 155 mm
ends: width 19 mm
between grips: width 10 mm
chain: length 382 mm
- type:
- tweezers
- credit:
- Church Missionary Society
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