Strigil, steel, with copper-decorated leather tarsel
- Made:
- 1850-1930
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Strigil, steel, with copper-decorated leather tarsel, from East Africa, 1850-1930
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A623478
- Materials:
- steel, tassel, leather, tassel, copper and tassel, root
- Measurements:
-
with stem: length 158 mm
width 42 mm
end: thickness 6 mm
tassel: length 330 mm
- type:
- strigils
- credit:
- Glendining