Knife, steel, with wooden handle

Made:: 1880-1920 in Uganda

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Knife, steel, with wooden handle, described in Museum records as a "medicine man's knife for surgical purposes", Ankole, Uganda, 1880-1920

One of several surgical instruments made by Banyankole people, Ankole Kingdom, Uganda, c. 1880-1920, presented to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum by Revd. J. Roscoe, leader of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition. This knife was reportedly used for surgical purposes by a "medicine man".

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A624137

Materials:: steel and handle, wood

type:: knife

credit:: Roscoe, J.

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