Tattooing instrument consisting of combined spatula and probe

Made:: 1850-1930

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Tattooing instrument consisting of combined spatula and probe, steel, from West Africa, 1850-1930

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A623497

Materials:: steel and copper, wire

type:: tattooing instruments

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Tattooing instrument consisting of combined spatula and probe

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