Wooden cigar box

Made:
1900-1930

Wooden cigar box, containing selected neolithic flint flakes used as trephines in primitive trephining, box European (?), 1900-1930

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A680377
Materials:
wood, hinges, screws, metal and padding, cotton wool
Measurements:
length 217 mm
width 138 mm
height 64 mm
type:
boxes

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