Strigil, steel, on leather band

Made:: 1850-1925

Strigil, steel, on leather band, used by the Barotse, Zambia
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Strigil, steel, on leather band, used by the Barotse, Zambia, African, 1850-1925

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A623518

Materials:: steel, band, leather and band, copper

Measurements:: length 132 mm
width 30 mm
max: thickness 11 mm
band folded double: length 320 mm

type:: strigils

credit:: Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)

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Strigil, steel, on leather band

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