Tattooing instrument(?), combined spatula and prob

Made:
1801-1925

Tattooing instrument(?), combined spatula and probe, steel and copper, wire, from Tanzania, 1801-1925

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Object Number:
A173364
Materials:
copper (wire), steel
type:
tattooing instruments, cosmetics (tattooing), ethnography (african) ethnography (african)

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