Iron knife with cylindrical wooden handle
- maker:
- Yoruba people
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Iron knife with cylindrical wooden handle, matchete-like blade, curved and flared towards tip, ceremonial and amuletic, smallpox ju-ju, Yoruba, Nigeria, 1851-1900
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A657212
- Materials:
- iron and handle, wood
- type:
- knife
- credit:
- Johnson, C.G.
