Circumcision instrument

Circumcision instrument

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Circumcision instrument
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Circumcision instrument, folding curved knife and combined tweezers and blade, on ring, bronze, from North Africa, 1801-1930

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A623611
Materials:
bronze and ring, steel
Measurements:
blade: length 96 mm
blade: width 17 mm
tweezers: length 43 mm
type:
circumcision knife and circumcision tweezers